We invite you to join us for the last virtual Inspire Students Alumni Roundtable of the semester, on Tuesday, 27 April at 13:00-14:00 Geneva time, with a focus on careers within the coveted United Nations system.
Panelists
Hans Baumgarten (MIA, 2009) has been with the UNDP in Paraguay for 5+ years, and is currently the Private Sector and Sustainable Development Specialist, responsible for engagement with the private sector. Before this current post, he was a Project Coordinator, managing a diverse portfolio of developmental projects. After his studies, he was an Assistant Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD, after which he interned at the WTO for 5 months. He then returned to UNCTAD, as a Consultant Economist for UNCTAD, where he worked on Investment Policy Reviews for developing countries.
Johanna Gelves Reyes (MDEV, 2019) is Associate Policy Officer at IOM, where she has been for the past 2 years. Prior to this position, she was first an intern in the Multilateral Processes Division and then a Consultant working on IOM’s relationship with UN agencies and the UN System as a whole. Before joining IOM, she interned at the Treaty Bodies Branch of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights. Prior to her time at Institute, she worked at CAF – the Development Bank of Latin America – for almost two years and also taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
William Knechtel (MIRPS, 2015) is Data Manager at the United Nation’s Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Secretariat, supporting governments and their stakeholders to track public financing for food security and nutrition. In this capacity, William must coordinates the program by coaching government focal points and managing consultants to assist countries in relevant training and completing the financial tracking exercises. Previously, William was an assistant to the Permanent Representative of Panama to the United Nations in Geneva, a data analyst at the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Mexico, and a human rights officer with migrant workers in Canada.
Carola Saletta (LLM, 2020), is currently a Legal Fellow at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, where she has been since February 2021. Prior to this position, and right after graduating from the Institute, she was an Intern at the Special Procedures Branch at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva. Before her LLM studies, she had also worked with UNHCR in Rome, as a legal intern first then as a protection assistant. Her areas of specialization include refugee protection, international human rights and migration law.
Do you have a question for the panel? Join us live or submit your questions ahead of time to alumni@graduateinstitute.ch.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this exciting event, and keep an eye out for the upcoming newsletter on all the Inspire Students alumni roundtables from the past academic year.
About the Inspire Students series: The Alumni Office, in collaboration with Career Services and the GISA Professional Development Committee, is organizing a series of monthly thematic roundtables aimed at connecting current students and alumni of the Institute around shared interests and to share experiences.
This is the last Inspire Students of the spring semester, and it will resume in the Fall, with new themes and fields of work. Thank you for joining us for the 2020-2021 sessions of Inspire Students. A specific newsletter with a summary and all the recordings will be sent soon.