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Examples of experts from the 2009 Programme
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Moustapha Kamal Gueye
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS OFFICER, UNEP
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.
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Katarzyna Grabska
RESEARCH FELLOW, GRADUATE INSTITUTE
Katarzyna Grabska (Kasia) is affiliated as Research Fellow with the Gender and Development Programme at the Graduate Institute. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MA in International Affairs and Conflict management from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her research interests focus on inter-linkages between conflict, forced displacement, gender and rights. She is currently completing a PhD at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of forced displacement and return on gender relations among southern Sudanese refugees. She is particularly interested in intersections of power, gender identities and gender relations in forced displacement situations and the impact of (forced) migration on youth.
She has over 12 years’ experience of work and research in the humanitarian field on issues of human rights, migration, refugees and post-conflict development in Egypt, Guinea, Ghana, Sudan, Cambodia and Vietnam. She has conducted research on forced migration policy in the Middle East and East Africa. Before joining IDS, she worked as a researcher at the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo and was a coordinator and a researcher with the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty. She is currently teaching two e-learning courses on gender and development theories at the Graduate Institute.
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Ida Koppen
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).
She alternates executive training programmes with academic teaching. From 1999 until 2002 she was Professorial Lecturer of Negotiation Techniques and Environmental Conflict Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center. Since 2006, she teaches Negotiation Skills and Techniques for the UNEP/University of Geneva/Graduate Institute Certificate of Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy, together with Valentin Yemelin of UNEP-GRID.
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Khalid Koser
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.
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