Dr. Susann Kassem (PhD ANSO 2013) is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow with the Middle East Centre and the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford University.
She was previously a SPF Postdoctoral Research Officer in Middle East Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Her research examines the role of international interventions carried out in the name of peace in the post-Cold War era. Her book project The Global North in the Global South: The Practices of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon analyzes the role of United Nations Peacekeeping in the contemporary world order by looking at one of the oldest and largest peacekeeping forces active today.
Dr. Felix Ohnmacht (PhD IH 2016) is the Head of Commercial Strategy & Innovation at Novartis, Region sub-Saharan Africa.
He also acts as the Head of The Novartis Biome SSA. Prior to Novartis, Felix was a core member of Accenture Strategy’s Precision Medicine and Personalized Healthcare Center of Excellence and an SME for its Global Health practice. He was a senior consultant to the Kofi Annan Foundation during the Syrian civil war. Felix obtained his PhD at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and was a doctoral fellow at Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute.
Gabriela Balvedi Pimentel (ANSO 2019) is an External Collaborator at the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
She started at the ILO by working at the Research Department and subsequently worked on the topic of indigenous peoples’ rights at the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch and at ILO’s regional office for Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Before taking on this position, she was a consultant for United Nations Human Rights where she drafted the reports and helped support the sessions of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, which assesses the human rights records of all UN member states.
Aline Zuber (IH 2020) is an Archives Associate in the library and public archive unit of the ICRC.
She is specialised in colonial history and has experience in human rights, media, teaching and archeology. After graduating from the Institute, she worked as a secondary education history teacher then joined Amnesty International before landing in her current position at the ICRC. She also assisted several research projects on the colonial history of Geneva with the Graduate Institute and Dialogue en Route.
Moderator: Diego Silva Garzón, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for International Environmental Studies.