Workshop Experts

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME
Moustapha Kamal Gueye is the Economic Affairs Officer at UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economy Economics and Trade Branch in Geneva. He works on the Green Economy Initiative.
The UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative assists governments in shaping and focusing policies, investments and spending towards a range of green sectors, such as clean technologies, industry, renewable energies, water services, transport, waste management, green buildings, and sustainable agriculture and forests, as a means of promoting sustainable economic growth, decent job creation, and poverty reduction, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions, extracting and using less natural resources and creating less waste.
From 2006 to early 2009 Kamal served as Senior Programme Manager Environment Cluster at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva. Previously, he worked and researched for over ten years across Asia, managing policy research projects on energy and environment in China and India at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. From 1994-1995, he consulted for the FAO on fisheries law and policy in Africa.
Kamal advised Toyota Motor Corporation World Convention 2003 on environmental and social initiatives for sustainable development in Africa. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Foreign Investment and Regional Economic Integration in Southeast Asia from Nagoya University, Japan; a post-graduate degree and LL.M. in International Economic Law from Dakar University, Senegal, and several executive certificates including from the World Bank Institute in Washington; the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Japan; and the Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) in India. He was a lead author of UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4). Kamal speaks English, French, Japanese and Wolof.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Ida Koppen is Vice-President of the Sustainability Challenge Foundation in the Netherlands (www.scfoundation.org) and Senior Practitioner Consultant with the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.cbuilding.org). She is affiliated with TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University (www.tiasnimbas.edu) as a permanent member of the faculty of the International Programme on the Management of Sustainability, She is a registered civil mediator in the Canton of Geneva and elected member of the School Board of Pregny-Chambésy/Collex-Bossy.

She was trained as an environmental scientist (BA Environmental Studies, Honors College, University of Oregon) and as an environmental lawyer (JD University of Amsterdam). She did post-graduate research at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Harvard-MIT Public Disputes Program (Fulbright Visiting Scholar), specialising in negotiation, mediation and consensus building. In 1994, she set up an environmental research and consulting practice in Tuscany, Italy. Since 2003 she is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Her consulting work focuses on conflict management, facilitation and mediation in the context of sustainable development en environmental policy. Past projects include Local Agenda 21 for the City of Spoleto, Italy; Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue at PrepCom IV in Bali of the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development; International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development in Göteborg, Sweden; mediation in Laag-Holland (Low-Holland) and De Groene Uitweg (The Green Way-out); facilitation of the ENCORE network (Environmental Conference of the Regions of Europe, www.encoreweb.org) and of the Network of European Regions on Education for Sustainability (www.regionres.eu).

GENEVA CENTRE FOR SECURITY POLICY

Dr. Khalid Koser is Director of the New Issues in Security Course (NISC) at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He is also Non-Resident Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and Research Associate at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His previous appointment was as Fellow in Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC (2006-08). Prior to that he was Senior Policy Analyst for the Global Commission on International Migration (2004-06), where he was seconded from his position as Lecturer in Human Geography at University College London (1998-2006). From 2006-08 he held an adjunct position in the School of Foreign Services at Georgetown University. He is lead author of IOM’s World Migration Report 2009, guest editor of a Special Issue of Global Governance on International Migration, and his latest book is on International Migration in the Routledge Global Institutions series.

DIRECTOR, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Cécile Molinier joined UNDP from the UN Secretariat, where she held several positions in Conference Services, the Staff Union, the Department of Management, and the Office of the Director General, Development and International Economic Cooperation.
Her first assignment with UNDP was as Deputy Resident Representative in Tunisia, followed by Resident Coordinator/Resident Representative assignments in Sao Tome and Principe, Togo, and Mauritania.  She was reassigned to the UNDP Office in Geneva in August, 2007.
Cecile Molinier holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s of Arts degrees in English from the Sorbonne in Paris, a Master’s degree in English Literature from Queen Mary College, London University and an MBA (Organisational Behaviour) from Pace University in New York.

Mr. Patrick A. Taran is a recognized specialist on migration and migrants’ human rights, with 35 years full-time professional experience. He played leading roles in obtaining national implementation worldwide of international legal standards; in developing technical cooperation and advisory services on migration governance; in producing practical guidance materials and academic literature on migration and migrants’ rights; and in facilitating cooperation on migration among governments, international organizations and civil society. He co- authored five books and many articles, reports and speeches on migration. Mr. Taran is President of the recently established Global Migration Policy Associates, a multidisciplinary team of migration experts from all world regions engaged in research, policy development, and advisory services on all aspects of migration worldwide. He currently implements a project on extending social security to migrants in the Eurasia region and recently co-organized a first global symposium on Migration, Family and Dignity held in Doha, Qatar in March 2012. He was Senior Migration Specialist with the International Labour Office (ILO), responsible for technical cooperation projects and advisory services in Africa, Eurasia and Europe, for work on discrimination and integration regarding migrant workers, and for activities on protection of rights of migrants with worldwide scope. Previous posts were Program Officer at the UN inter-agency International Migration Policy Program and Secretary for Migration at the World Council of Churches (1990 to 1998); he co-founded and later directed Migrants Rights International (MRI). He established and directed the South American Refugee Program in Seattle from 1976 to 1980 and held research, project funding, and Washington advocacy posts at the Immigration and Refugee Program of the National Council of Churches USA from 1980 to 1990.
His university training at Friends World College/State University of New York was in social work and Latin American studies. He  teaches migration governance at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and lectures at the ILO International Training Centre in Turin.