Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (2 panels)
Venue: The Simon Wiesenthal Center/New York Tolerance Center, Screening Room, 226 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) See map

Panel 1: Emerging Policy Perspectives on Human Mobility in a
Changing Climate (10:00 to 11:30 a.m.)

Panel 2: Seal the Deal: How Risk Reduction and Insurance Strengthen the Adaptation Package in a Copenhagen Agreement (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

UNU, together with partners and leading experts, have created these two panels to complement the message of the Secretary General to the 64th General Assembly: to reach a strong agreement in Copenhagen on combating climate change and supporting adaptation. These panels provide delegates and other interested individuals examples and ways forward to promote adaptation and resilience in the face of climate change.

Moderated by:

Jean-Marc Coicaud

Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York

Welcome Remarks:

Mark Weitzman

Director of Government Affairs & Director of the Task Force against Hate and Terrorism, Simon Wiesenthal Center

Presentation:
Insurance Instruments for Adapting to Climate Risks: Moving towards Copenhagen, download PPT

The Climate Change - Migration Nexus, download PPT

Background Readings:

Highlights of UNU Research and Publications on the Environment and Sustainability, Download PDF

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement, Download PDF

Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Insurance, Download PDF

Insuring against Climate: Negotiators Push for Policies to Help Weather Natural Disasters, Download PDF

Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, Download PDF

Climate change and associated environmental degradation hold the potential to displace millions of people in coming decades. Estimates of the likely number of people who may be affected by environmental migration vary widely and there have been few efforts to date to systematically analyze the triggers, patterns and policy implications of such trends. An emerging body of inter-disciplinary research is beginning to look at key aspects of these issues with the aim of helping policy makers to make informed decisions on how to prepare for, prevent or respond to climate change related human mobility in an effective manner.

Welcome Remarks :

William Lacy Swing

Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Speakers:

Susan F. Martin
Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Koko Warner
Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer
Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Thomas Loster
Chairman Munich Re Foundation

Frank Laczko
Head of Research, International Organization of Migration (IOM)

In recent years there have been more and more indicators that climatic change already influences the frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes. These increasing hazard-related risks--associated with both climate change and social and economic developments--create a substantial additional burden for sustainable development. The decisive question today is not when we will have the ultimate proof for anthropogenic climate change - a small risk of error certainly will remain for some time - but which strategies we should follow to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have committed themselves to considering the special needs and concerns of developing countries resulting from the adverse effects of climate change in the area of insurance. Many governments and organizations are exploring how disaster risk reduction and risk sharing approaches might help countries particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts adapt. A central concern, and the focus of this panel, is how to make such measures accessible and affordable to vulnerable developing countries in order to support them in their efforts to reduce risk and adapt to climate change.

Speakers:

Thomas Loster
Chairman of Munich Re Foundation

Koko Warner
Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Founder and Executive Board Member Munich Climate Insurance Initiative

Simon Young
Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Risk Managers Ltd

Yannick Glemarec
Deputy Executive Coordinator at UNDP's Global Environmental Facility

We would like to thank the Simon Wiesenthal Center - New York Tolerance Center for their contributions to this event. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. With a membership of over 400,000 families and 250,000 e-members, SWC is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, Toronto, Miami, Jerusalem, Paris and Buenos Aires. NYTC provides diversity seminars for educators, criminal justice officials, state/local government practitioners, and middle and high school students from the public, private and parochial school systems. In addition, NYTC provides special film, lecture and facilitated tours for the general community.

Biographies:

Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Mark Weitzman is Director Government Affairs and the Director of the Task Force against Hate and Terrorism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is also the Chief Representative of the Center to the United Nations in New York, and was the Founding Director of the SWC's New York Tolerance Center. Mr. Weitzman is a member of the official US delegation to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research and a board member and former Vice-President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations. He is also a member of the advisory panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), of the official Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Group of New York and of the advisory board of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy at Yale University.

Mr. Weitzman is a winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award for best anthology for Antisemitism, the Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal which he co-edited and contributed to and which has appeared in French, Spanish and Russian editions. His most recent publications are Magical Logic: Globalization, Conspiracy Theory and the Shoah. (Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and Strategies in Facing Antisemitism: An Educational Resource Guide which was a joint publication of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Yad Vashem.

He has lectured and worked with various groups including Congress, the U.N., the EU (European Union) the U.S. Army and the FBI. In 2004 he was one of the featured speakers at the UN's first ever conference on antisemitism and in 2009 addressed the UN's conference on cyber hate. In June 2005 he spoke at the OSCE conference on Antisemitism and Other Forms of Intolerance which was held in Cordoba, Spain, and he was an advisor to the US delegation at the June 2007 Bucharest OSCE conference on Combating Discrimination. Mr. Weitzman also chaired the panels on Internet and Media Issues at the 2007 and 2008 Global Forums on Antisemitism that were convened by the Israeli government. In April of 2008 he was one of the Jewish leaders invited to meet with Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to the US. In 1999 Mr. Weitzman was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the Center of Hate and Extremism at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

He was on the board of advisors for the companion guide for the film Shoah (1987). Other publications include editing and contributing to Dignity and Defiance: Confronting Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto (1993) The New Lexicon of Hate (3rd edition, 2004) the textbook Historical Case Studies: The Holocaust (1996), the Wiesenthal Center's annual CD, Digital Hate and Terrorism (2000-2008) as well as to Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus?: Die extremische Rechte in der Ara der Globalisierung (Globalized Right-wing Extremism: Right-wing Extremism in an Era of Globalization - 2006) and the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan, 2004). His article, The Transmigration of Antisemitism: Old Myths; New Realities, appeared last spring in Not Your Father's Antisemitism: The Hatred of Jews in the Early 21st Century, edited by Michael Berenbaum. His book Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (which he co-authored with Steven L. Jacobs) the first full refutation of the infamous Protocols, was published in 2003 and has been translated into Arabic and Japanese.

Mr. William Lacy Swing, is the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). On 18 June 2008, Ambassador William Lacy Swing of the United States was elected as the next Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He assumed his post on 1 October 2008. From May 2003 till January 2008, as UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ambassador Swing successfully led all facets of the largest UN peacekeeping operation in history. Prior to his work in the DRC, Ambassador Swing served from 2001 to 2003 as the Special Representative to the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Chief of Mission for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

During a long diplomatic career at the US Department of State, Mr. Swing was a six-time ambassador, managing some of the largest diplomatic missions and foreign development and humanitarian aid programmes in two hemispheres, with a record of strengthening bilateral relationships.

Through his diplomatic assignments in countries facing significant migration movements, he has acquired a deep understanding of the multiple factors affecting international migration.

Ambassador Swing graduated from Catawba College in North Carolina (Bachelor of Arts) and Yale University (Bachelor of Divinity), and did post-graduate studies at Tubingen University in Germany and at Harvard University. He speaks fluent French and German.

Susan F. Martin is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Susan F. Martin holds the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and serves as the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Martin is also Co-Director of the Certificate Program on Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Previously Dr. Martin served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the President on U.S. immigration and refugee policy, and Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group.

Her publications include Refugee Women, The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration, Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America (ed.), Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation, and Mexico-U.S. Migration Management: A Binational Approach (ed.). Dr. Martin earned her MA and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in History from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She is the immediate Past President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and serves on the U.S. Comptroller General's Advisory Board, the Academic Advisory Board of the International Organization for Migration, and the Board of the Advocacy Project.

Dr. Martin's began working on environmental migration issues in the early 1990s when she organized an international conference, IOM/RPG Seminar on Migration and the Environment, Nyon, Switzerland (January 1992). The background document that she wrote to help organize the discussions and the summary of the conference's findings continue to be key documents in the evolving literature on the subject. More recently, Dr. Martin has been working on an article examining policy frameworks to address environmentally-induced migration, which includes an examination of poverty reduction strategies, national adaptation plans, and immigration policies in potential receiving countries. The paper is part of an IOM project on environmental migration. In another project, she is examining the involvement of the refugee regime in addressing mass displacement of people from environmental causes or natural disasters, looking at the circumstances in which the UN High Commissioner for Refugees should use its good mandate to assist and/or protect those displaced by these situations. Her book, The Uprooted, also focused on the evolving humanitarian response to complex forced migration, including movements generated by environmental causes and climate change.

 
Koko Warner is Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Dr. Warner´s research focuses on two climate adaptation paths: environmentally induced migration and environmental change, and financial mechanisms to assist the poor including (micro)insurance and remittances. Warner was on the management board of the EACH-FOR project (Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios, www.each-for.eu), a first-time global scoping survey of the links between environmental change and migration sponsored by the European Commission. Warner helped organize the first major international conference (www.efmsv2008.org) on the topic. She contributed to the establishment of the Climate Change, Environment, and Migration Alliance (CCEMA), and in collaboration with the Munich Re Foundation planned and implemented a summer academy on environmental change and migration. Warner is a founder and executive board member of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII, www.climate-insurance.org). She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Global Warming. She is pursuing a Habilitation at the ETH Zürich, Department for Environmental Science and Economics, and serves as an assistant professor at the University of Richmond´s Emergency Service Management graduate program. Prior to joining UNU-EHS Warner was a researcher at the ETH Zürich, and before that she was a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). She received her PhD in economics at the University of Vienna Department of Economics as a Fulbright Fellow.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer is currently Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch at the Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). As such he is the principal policy advisor to the Emergency Relief Coordinator on enhancing effective humanitarian action through adherence to humanitarian norms and principles, developing strategies and tools in support of humanitarian field operations, and advocating for humanitarian concerns in all areas of the United Nations' work.

Until December 2006, Mr. Strohmeyer served as Chief of Office of the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs/Emergency Relief Coordinator and as Head of the Secretariat of the Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs at OCHA. He advised the Under-Secretary General on all matters related to the management of humanitarian crises, including interaction with political and peacekeeping/military actors, and frequently accompanied him on field missions including to Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Angola, or Malawi.

Mr. Strohmeyer served in several United Nations missions, including most recently as Chief of Staff and Senior Political Adviser to the United Nations Independent International Inquiry Commission (UNIIIC), based in Beirut, where he was responsible, inter alia, for cooperation matters with Syria. From August 2004 until May 2005 he was Chief of Staff of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), and, in 2003, he served in Liberia as Chief of Staff and Special Advisor for Protection to the Special Humanitarian Coordinator.

Moreover, from October 1999 to July 2000 he served as the Acting and then Deputy Principal Legal Adviser to the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET); from June to August 1999 as the Legal Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo (UNMIK); and, from 1996 to late 1998 as advisor on war crimes, human rights, and legal reform issues within the Offices of the High Representative (OHR) and the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mr. Strohmeyer was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1962 and completed his academic education in Muenster, Germany with degrees in law and political science. From 1991 to 1996 he served as trial judge in Duesseldorf, Germany and is currently on leave of absence from his judgeship. In 1997 and 1998 he was a member of the German delegation to the International Criminal Court preparatory committee proceedings and the Rome Conference.

He is the author of the Secretary-General's first two reports on the protection of civilians in armed conflict and of several academic publications, including "Collapse and Reconstruction of a Judicial System: The United Nations Missions in Kosovo and East Timor", American Journal of International Law, January 2001.

Thomas Loster is the Chairman of Munich Re Foundation. Mr. Loster, a geographer, was a member of the Geoscience Research Group at Munich Reinsurance Company, Munich, the world's leading reinsurance company, for 16 years. He was in charge of issues relating to weather perils, climate change and climate policy. His responsibilities also included the statistical analyses of worldwide natural catastrophes and trend analyses that appeared in a number of papers and publications. Mr. Loster was appointed chairman of the Munich Re Foundation in July 2004. The Foundation addresses major global challenges - environmental and climate change, water as a resource and risk factor, population growth and disaster prevention - and is committed to helping people exposed to risk situations. True to its motto "From Knowledge To Action", the Foundation aims to prepare people to deal with risks and to improve their living conditions as well as to minimise the risks to which they are exposed. The Foundation clarifies the key issues and provides support, not only in developed but also in developing countries. Thomas R. Loster is member of the German Council for Sustainable Development, also a member of the National Committee of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

Frank Laczko is Head of the Research and Publications Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva. IOM is an inter-governmental organization. Dr. Laczko joined IOM in 1995, and his previous posts include, Head of the Migration Information Programme for Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest, 1995-1998, Head of Research at the IOM Technical Cooperation Centre for the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna, 1998-2000.

Prior to joining IOM he worked for UNHCR 1993-1994, and was a consultant to ILO, OECD, and the European Commission, was a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the UK. Educated in the UK and Sweden, Dr, Laczko, published widely on social policy issues relating to labour market policies, population ageing and poverty, before moving into the field of migration. Between 1987-1989, he was a member of the evaluation team at the University of Bath, responsible for assessing the impact of the European Commission's Second Anti-Poverty Programme consisting of 92 pilot projects.

Dr. Laczko, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Migration and Development Research Centre, University of Sussex, Eurasylum, Brussels, and the COMPAS centre for research on migration, University of Oxford.

Simon Young is Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Risk Managers Ltd which supervises the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF). He has a background in Earth Sciences and, after completing his PhD, joined the British Geological Survey, where he worked on a number of applied earth science projects including hazard mapping and risk assessment (in Central and South America) and volcano monitoring and disaster management (primarily on Montserrat in the Caribbean.) In October of 2006, GeoSY Ltd became Caribbean Risk Managers, CaribRM. As CEO, Dr Young continues to work with a wide variety of public- and private-sector clients across the Latin America/Caribbean region in the advancement of their risk management and risk transfer goals. In particular, CaribRM is in the middle of its third year as Facility Supervisor of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, the world's only parametric, multi-national sovereign cat risk pooling scheme. Dr Young leads the CaribRM business unit focusing on bringing innovative risk transfer solutions to single- and multi-territory companies and institutions through cat modelling, dynamic financial analysis and other risk management expertise. In particular, CaribRM has developed expertise in parametric/index product development and implementation. Dr Young's broad range of experience in natural hazards and risk financing has been called upon through numerous engagements and presentations at conferences, workshops and seminars around the world and through press and academic publications.

Yannick Glemarec is the Deputy Executive Coordinator at UNDP's Global Environment Facility.In this capacity, he has primary responsibility for the implementation oversight of a $6 billion portfolio ($2 billion in grants and $4 billion in co-financing) comprising over 2,000 projects and activities in 140 countries. He supervises UNDP-GEF staff both at HQ and at six UNDP/GEF regional coordination units in Beirut, Bratislava, Dakar, Bangkok, Panama City and Pretoria. Yannick joined UNDP in 1989 and successively served as a country manager in Vietnam for five years, in China for five years and in Bangladesh for two years prior to joining UNDP/GEF in New York in January 2003. Yannick holds a Doctorate Degree in Environment from the University of Paris and a MSc Degree in Hydrology (DEA) from the French National School for Water and Forestry. He has authored and co-authored several books and papers in the environmental and natural disaster risk management fields.

The event will mark the launch of a new Oxfam International report 'Dying for Action - decision time for an effective Arms Trade Treaty'

Date: Wednesday 7 October 2009
Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. EDT (New York Time)
Venue: United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 4

Speakers:

• H.E. Mr. Paul van den Ijssel, Netherlands Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament
• Ms. Debbie Hillier, Policy Advisor, Oxfam International
• Frances Mutuku Nguli, PeaceNet Kenya

Jan Egeland, Director of Norwegian Institute for International Affairs and former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs

The following is the video message as viewed at the event:

You can also find a blog post by Jan Egeland entitled "An Arms Trade Treaty Is Necessary and Possible".

Chair:

Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director, UNU Office at the UN, New York

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Ms. Amira Hassanein at (212) 963-6387 or e-mail hassanein@unu.edu

Refreshments and light lunch provided

Event reports both in PDF and Word format:

• Report for Event - Download DOC

• Report for Event - Report for Event - Dying For Action.pdf

Event Materials and Background Readings:

• The Launched Report "Dying For Action - Decision time for an urgent, effective Arms Trade Treaty" - Download PDF
• Ms. Debbie Hillier's Presentation - Download PDF
• Ms. Debbie Hillier's Speech - Download PDF
• Mr. Francis Mutuku Nguli's Speech - Download PDF
• Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on the report of the First Committee - Download PDF
• United Nations Office For Disarmament Affairs
• For more reports and information from Oxfam please visit www.drop.io/conflictvoice
• For the blogs coming out this week on the ATT please visit www.conflictvoice.org
• Jan Egeland's blog post - "An Arms Trade Treaty Is Necessary and Possible"

Further Post-Event Updates:
Oxfam: "There have been some major developments in the process with US coming out in support, although insisting on consensus. See our press release and blogs on www.conflictvoice.org."

Press articles about Arms Trade and related issues:

• "Arms Trade Must Be Regulated - Crucial Month at the UN", The Huffing Post
• "Campaigners press for arms trade deal", AFP
• "Armed violence kills 2,000 a day worldwide-groups", Reuters

Panelists Biographies:

Paul van den Ijssel, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch Law and have later completed post- graduate courses in International Relations, languages, economics, eloquence, European law and management. He has been working in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation since the late 1980s and has held senior posts at Dutch Embassies in Nigeria, Poland and Germany. Ambassador Ijssel was formerly the Head of Non-Nuclear Arms Control Section and Head of the Arms Control and Arms Export policy Division at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before his current posting he was the Director of the Office of the Secretary-General at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ijssel have published various articles on arms control, security policy and public international law and speaks a number of languages including Dutch, English, German, French, Polish, Spanish.

Ms. Debbie Hillier has been Arms Policy Adviser for Oxfam since 2002. She has worked with others to influence regional arms control instruments, including improvements to the EU Code of Conduct, and the development of the Nairobi Protocol and the ECOWAS Convention. She has been key in development of and lobbying for policy on the Arms Trade Treaty. She has written many publications including Guns or Growth, Africa's Missing Billions and co-authored others, including the Control Arms campaign report Shattered Lives: the case for tough arms controls.

Frances Mutuku Nguli is the Chief Executive of PeaceNet Kenya, a Peace and Development Network. Being a seasoned manager for both institutions and programmes in areas of peace building, armed violence reduction, gender development and human rights professional, Nguli has experience in a number of large successful international and local organizations.

Event Multimedia:

Photos from the event:

Panelists
Mrs. Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services
Ms. Angela Kane, Under-Secretary-General for Management
Ms. Susana Malcorra, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support
Mr. Jules Muis, former Director General of the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission and former Vice President and Controller of the World Bank
Mr. David Walker, Chairman of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee

Moderator
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director, United Nations University Office at the UN, New York

Event Files
Watchdog or Lapdog? Event Report.doc
Watchdog or Lapdog? Event Report.pdf
Mrs. Ahlenius' Presentation.ppt

To listen to the audio recording of the event:

To download full MP3 recording Click Here

Further Information and Background Readings:

Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) website.

OIOS Organizational Chart

OIOS Information Booklet

UNU Policy Brief - Accountability and the UN System

Annual Reports:
General Assembly Resolution A/64/326 (Part I)
General Assembly Resolution A/64/326 (Part I)/Add.1

General Assembly Resolution 48/218B, OIOS' founding resolution.

General Assembly Resolution 59/272, also referred to as the transparency resolution.

Proposals for Strengthening OIOS, also called the 901.

UNU Press Publication - Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the 21st Century, Edited by Sumihiro Kuyama and Michael Fowler

Mr. Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His career encompasses many years of service both in government and on the global stage, including as his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade; postings in New Delhi, Vienna and Washington D.C.; and responsibility for a variety of portfolios, including foreign policy, national security and policy planning.

Mr. Ban's ties with the United Nations date back to 1975, when he worked for the Foreign Ministry's United Nations division. In 2001-2002, he was Chef-de-Cabinet during the Republic of Korea's Presidency of the General Assembly. In 1999, he served as Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization.

Mr. Ban has also been actively involved in promoting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. He holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National University and a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Mrs. Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden was appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services for a five-year term starting on 15 July 2005.

Prior to joining the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), Mrs. Ahlenius was Auditor General of Kosovo from 2003 to 2005. Previously she served as the Auditor General of Sweden from 1993 to 2003. Before her appointment as Auditor General of the Swedish National Audit Office, Mrs. Ahlenius worked for the Ministry of Finance of Sweden as Head of the Budget Department from 1987 to 1993. During her tenure as Auditor General of Sweden , Mrs. Ahlenius chaired the INTOSAI Auditing Standards Committee for eight years. She was chairman of the Governing Board of the European Organization for Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) during 1993 to 1996. Mrs. Ahlenius was a member of the Committee of Independent Experts that was called for by the European Parliament with a mandate to examine the way in which the European Commission detects and deals with fraud, mismanagement and nepotism. [Their report led to the resignation of the Commission.] During Mrs. Ahlenius' career in the Ministry of Finance, she also served as head of the Ministerial Department from 1980 to 1987, responsible for issues related to education, agriculture, environment, energy, and the judiciary. Her work in the Ministry of Finance started 1975 to 1980, as Head of Section in the International Department and in the Budget Department. Mrs. Ahlenius' public employment started 1968 in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, where she was engaged in the programme of cooperation among the Nordic countries, and participated in the negotiations and preparations for Sweden 's free trade agreement with the European Economic Community (EEC).

Mrs. Ahlenius public career has been founded on experiences from the private financial sector. From 1962 to 1968, Mrs. Ahlenius worked in the economic secretariat of Sweden's largest commercial bank, Handelsbanken. During 1963 to 1964, she was granted a leave of absence to work at the Societé Tunisienne de Banque in Tunisia where she was employed in the department for medium-term credits. Mrs. Ahlenius' education includes humanities and languages, and she holds a degree in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Ms. Angela Kane of Germany assumed the position of Under-Secretary-General for Management on 1 June 2008.

Previously, Ms. Kane had been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.

She also held the positions of Director in the Department of Political Affairs and Director in the Department of Public Information.

Her field experience includes Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), and postings in Indonesia and Thailand.

Ms. Kane also served as Principal Officer for Political Affairs in the Office of former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, worked with the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central American Peace Process and managed the World Disarmament Campaign.

On 14 March 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Susana Malcorra of Argentina as Head of the Department of Field Support at the Under-Secretary-General level.

Ms. Malcorra, who assumed her position on 4 May 2008, directs all support for United Nations peace missions worldwide. As the Head of the Department of Field Support, she is leading staff at Headquarters in support of 32 field operations currently comprising over 100,000 military, police and civilian personnel.

Ms. Malcorra took over from Jane Holl Lute, who had been leading the Department since its establishment in July 2007. Expressing great appreciation for Ms. Holl Lute's important contribution through that critical start-up period of the Department, the Secretary-General said he looked forward to her continued service.

Prior to her appointment as the Head of the Department of Field Support, Ms. Malcorra served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), overseeing daily emergency and humanitarian operations in more than 80 countries, with over 10,000 personnel. During her tenure at WFP she led the initial phase of the operational response to the tsunami emergency in December 2004 and managed human resources, budget, finance, information, technology, telecommunications, administration and security. Before joining WFP in 2004, she had accrued 25 years' experience in the private sector, including leadership roles at IBM and Telecom Argentina.

Ms. Malcorra was born in 1954 and graduated as Engineer in Electronics from the University of Rosario in Argentina.

Jules Muis is former Director General and Chief Internal Auditor of the European Commission (2001-2004) and Vice President and Controller of the World Bank (1995- 2000).

Prior to those engagements, Jules had a long career at Ernst & Young where he served as Executive Partner for European Operations from 1991 to 1994. In 1991 he was President of NIvRA, the Dutch Institute of Registered Accountants.

Systemic issues in the global setting have always captured his attention, and it is on these issues that he has focused his energies: controls, audit and accounting standard setting and quality control; strategic planning and risk management; institution building and good governance.

When Jules joined the World Bank in 1995, he took it upon himself to introduce COSO-predicated modern controllership to the Bank. He championed the need for the Bank to identify and address the public and private good governance issues at the base of the various Latin American and (in 1997) East Asian crises. Seeing countries implode under the collective weight of poor governance, he repeatedly made the case that accounting and auditing--in addition to sound public and corporate governance--are economic fundamentals. His advocacy awakened within the Bank a growing willingness to acknowledge these new policy areas as preconditions for sound economics. He continued to champion these principles during his tenure at the European Commission.

After leaving the Commission, Jules spent some six months touring the world to take stock of the state of financial fragility; and assess the systemic risks in financial systems. In December 2004 he shared his alarming conclusion in public forum ("Accountantsdag") in the Netherlands; concluding that a fundamental breakdown of our opaque, overstressed, disjointed and under-controlled financial system was an accident waiting to happen--for most of the same reasons we know today. In 2005 he followed up on his dire warnings with a co-authored publication "Survival Kit for Accountants and Auditors in a Turbo Derivative World", preferably to be deployed before the financial fragility shoe were to drop.

November 2009 he will finish a five-year term as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the International Baccalaureate organization (IBO). He is presently also the Chairman of the Oversight Committee of "Common Content", an European professional accounting bodies' initiative at harmonizing and upgrading the European professional qualification requirements for accountants in business and practice.

September 2009

Today, Mr. Muis continues to contribute to the systemic risks and good governance dialogue, at conferences, workshops and hearings of primarily multi-lateral organizations; and as a blogger for the Dutch Institute of Registered Accountants.

Mr. David Walker is a Certified Public Accountant. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Jacksonville University, a Senior Managers in Government Certificate from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and several honorary doctorate degrees from various universities, including the American University and his alma mater.

Mr. Walker is currently the President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a position he took up in March of 2008. Before this he served for 10 years as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)

He has held several key leadership positions within the domestic and international accountability community as Chairman of the United States Inter-governmental Audit Forum and Chairman of the United States Joint Financial Management Improvement Programme, and as a member of the Governing Board of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).

Mr. Walker had over 36 years of public- and private-sector experience. He served as a partner and Global Managing Director of the Human Capital Services Practice for Arthur Andersen LLP from 1989 until 1998. During that time, he also served as a Public Trustee of the United States Social Security and Medicare programmes from 1990 to 1995.

Mr. Walker also served within government as Assistant Secretary for Labour for Pension and Employee Benefit Programmes and acting head of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. His initial professional and private-sector experience was gained with Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand and Source Services Corporation.

Mr. Walker has won many awards for his leadership, writing and speeches.

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations Headquarters (New York). He was Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU headquarters (Tokyo) from 1996 to 2003. From 1992 to 1996, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing). Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in Political Science-Law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: L'introuvable démocratie autoritaire (L'Harmattan, 1996), Légitimité et Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Jean-Marc Coicaud is now finishing two new single-authored books, Kissing War Goodbye, and Knowledge and International Institutions.

Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira is the Vice-President of the Government of Catalonia.

He participated actively in the struggle against the Franco regime and was arrested and imprisoned as one of the 113 members of the Standing Committee of the Assembly of Catalonia (1973). Before joining Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) in 1987, he had been a militant of the Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional (PSAN) (1970-1977) and Nacionalistes d'Esquerra (1980-1986).

He was elected General Secretary of ERC at the 21st National Congress of the party, held in Vilafranca del Penedès in November 1996, and was re-elected to the same post at the 22nd National Congress, held in Girona in July 1998, and the 23rd National Congress, held in Tarragona in March 2001. In April 2002 he was chosen as ERC's candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia for the 2003 elections. He headed his party's ticket for both the Catalan parliamentary elections (2003) and the elections to the Spanish Congress (2004) and he obtained ERC's best results since the return of democracy. He was elected President of Esquerra at the 24th National Congress of the party, held in Lleida in July 2004. On 2 November 2004 he defended the text of the 30 September Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia at the Spanish Parliament, on behalf of the Catalan Parliament. Carod-Rovira has been Vice-President of the Government of Catalonia since 29 November 2006.

Mrs. Rosa Clavell is the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Catalonia. She had previously been British consul (2004-2007) at the British Consulate-General in Barcelona, where she was responsible for consular services in Catalonia, Aragon and the Principality of Andorra. Between 2001 and 2003 she had held the post of vice-consul.

Between 1997 and 2000 she was in charge of promoting English at the British Council in Barcelona. She ran a nursery school and in the period 1983-1993 she was Marketing Manager at the VITRUBIO - LEO BURNETT advertising agency and the TBWA agency.

She was appointed Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of the Government of Catalonia in December 2008, after serving as Secretary for Foreign Affairs since June 2007. She has combined these duties with those of Secretary General of the trust Patronat Catalunya Món since July 2008.

Her academic record includes studying English literature at the University of California, Berkeley; courses on International Relations and Protocol at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London; the Personnel Management course at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Oxford; and Diplomacy, a Tool for Dialogue, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Prague.

Mr. Bruce Jenks is currently Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau for Partnerships, UNDP. The Bureau is responsible for developing and strengthening relationships with UNDP's key constituencies and development partners, including the Executive Board, member states, the United Nations system, the International Financial Institutions, civil society, the private sector and foundations. The Bureau has responsibility for the resource mobilization function of UNDP. The Bureau also includes UNDP's Communications Office.

Mr. Jenks joined UNDP in 1981 and was assigned to a variety of headquarters and field tasks. In 1990 he was appointed Director of Budget. In 1993, Mr. Jenks was assigned to work as Director, Office of the Administrator. In 1995, the Secretary-General appointed him as the first Director of the United Nations Office as well as being UNDP Representative in Brussels. During the course of 2006 Mr. Jenks concurrently served as Director of the Bureau of Management. Mr. Jenks is currently responsible for UNDP's participation in and engagement with the UN Reform Agenda.

Mr. Jenks holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Oxford University, and MA's from Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins SAIS. Mr. Jenks has published a wide variety of articles.

Ms. Elisa Peter is Officer-in-Charge and Chief of the New York Office of the United Nations Non Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS). The Service aims to promote constructive relations between the United Nations and civil society, including through dynamic partnerships to foster greater coherence around cross-cutting and emerging issues on the UN's agenda and by facilitating meaningful civil society engagement in UN processes. Drawing on its inter-agency nature and UN system-wide perspective, NGLS provides strategic information, analysis and support to a wide range of constituencies, using its unique convening and networking capacity to strengthen multistakeholder dialogue and alliance-building on core UN issues.

Prior to working at NGLS, Ms. Peter spent more than ten years working as a policy expert and campaign director in a range of international non-profit advocacy organizations in the fields of environmental conservation and human rights in Latin America, Asia and Europe. She also worked as a Consultant on International forest policy for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Ms. Peter holds a Masters in Applied Environmental Sciences from Imperial College, University of London -U.K., and a Masters in Agronomy from the National Superior Agronomy School - France.

Mr. Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director of the United Nations University Research and Training Programme on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), located in Bruges (Belgium). The mission of UNU-CRIS is to contribute towards achieving the universal goals of the UN and the UNU through comparative and interdisciplinary research and training for a better understanding of the processes and impact of intra- and inter-regional integration. Mr. De Lombaerde has been involved in research projects on the interaction between micro- and macro-regions, the future of the Benelux, external policies of the Flemish region, and on cross-border micro-regions in Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and the Andean region, among other topics

Mr. Josep Xercavins is currently a Titular Professor at UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia).

Mr. Xercavins was appointed as Director of the EUETIT (University School of Industrial Engineering at Terrassa) at the UPC from 1992 to 1995. He was the Rector's Delegate for the UPC's Campus in Terrassa from 1995 to 1998.

He organised and coordinated the International Congress on Technology, Sustainable Development and Imbalances held in Terrassa in December 1995. From that context came the UPC's UNESCO Chair in Technology, Sustainable Development, Imbalances and Global Change, for which he was the coordinating lecturer until June 2002. He was the first academic director of the MASTER's DEGREE IN SUSTAINABILITY at the UPC, one of the key work areas of the UNESCO Chair, the director of the Journal "SOSTENIBLE?" ('Sustainable?'), the Director of the Catalan edition of the Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and served on the Catalan Committee for the "Earth Charter" and on the "Agenda 21" initiatives. He also fostered the new INTERDEPARTMENTAL DOCTORATE PROGRAMME: SUSTAINABILITY, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANISM.

In 2000, as coordinator of its Ad Hoc Secretariat, Mr. Xercavins became the main organizer of the UBUNTU initiative (WORLD FORUM OF CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS), headed by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, and he was also a founding participant and moderator at the Founding Meetings (Barcelona 2001 and 2002) for that Forum. He worked in particular on what is now the main project of the Forum: the "WORLD CAMPAIGN FOR IN-DEPTH REFORM OF THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS". He left Ubuntu in February 2009.

Prominent among the international congresses and conferences on those issues in which he took part were: the UNESCO's "World Conference on Higher Education", held in Paris in October 1998; the United Nations' Millennium Forum, held in May 2000 at the UN's headquarters in New York; the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg in September 2002; the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Cancun in September 2003; the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005; the first UN General Assembly Hearings with representatives of Civil Society in June 2005 -therefore was nominated to take part in representation of the Civil Society Internationally organized; the Sixth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Meeting, held in December 2005 in Hong Kong: and the ECOSOC Spring Meetings with the IBWs and the WTO, held in April 2006, 2007 and 2008; the Follow-up on Financing for Development to Review de Implementation of Monterrey Consensus that concluded in Doha (Qatar) in December 2008 and was nominated in several occasions to take part in representation of the Civil Society Internationally organized. In the framework of this latest process he promoted the CTT (Currency Transaction Tax) for FfD (Financing for Development Campaign.)

Mr. Noé Cornago is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao (Spain), where he is also in charge of the Masters Degree in International Decentralized Cooperation: Peace and Development. He has widely published on development theory, decentralized cooperation and the international relations of constituent units. He has held diverse short visiting positions at Ohio State University and University of Idaho in United States, Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, Institute for Political Studies/Sciences Po Bordeaux, and the Free University of Colombia, and has promoted a number of decentralized partnerships with various UN institutions.

Mr. Juan López-Dóriga is Director General of Planning and Evaluation of Cooperation to Development of the Spanish Government.

In this capacity, Mr. López-Dóriga is responsible for the planning and evaluation of the Spanish government's policies towards cooperation to development. As part of his professional career, Mr. López-Dóriga held various positions within the Spanish Government. He served as a Deputy Consul at the Consulate General of Spain in Paris, the Deputy Head of the Embassy of Spain in Costa Rica and an advisor in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Iberoamerica. Prior to his current position, Mr. López-Dóriga was an ambassador of Spain to Belize, with residence in Guatemala 2004 through 2008. Mr. López-Dóriga holds a degree in law.

David Minoves i Llucià was born in Barcelona in 1969. He presently lives in Barcelona. He studied Fine Arts and Political Sciences. He started his political engagement when he was a student, fighting against militarism and rejecting to join the military service. He is a member of the leftist independentist party since 1987. He was appointed Secretary General of the JERC (the Youth sector of the Republican Left of Catalonia), President of this party in Barcelona and member of the executive board, as the person responsible to deal with social movements.

He has been an activist in several campaigns; was a member of the Stop the War platform and has actively participated in several World Social Forums, the European Social forum and the Mediterranean Social Forum. He worked as an officer at the Josep Irla's Foundation and as a consultant at the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

Since Februrary 2004 and until 2006, he was the Director of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation. In 2007, he was appointed Director General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.

Roland Tricot is the Counsellor for legal and disarmament affairs of the European Commission (EC) Delegation to the United Nations.

Prior to that position, Mr. Tricot worked from 2002 to 2007 as Director at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO, New York), the US-led international organization managing nuclear and conventional disarmament incentives for DPRK (Pyongyang). He was first in charge of public and external affairs liaising with 28 participating countries before becoming Legal Counsel in 2004.

Mr. Tricot began his career in 1992 as a teaching-researcher at La Sorbonne Law School (Paris I). After passing the EU high civil service exam, he was recruited in 1995 by the EC Nuclear External Relations Division (Brussels). As desk officer for non-proliferation, he followed IAEA matters and represented the EC at the Zangger Committee and Nuclear Suppliers Group. In 1997, Mr. Tricot joined the EC Legal Service, which reports directly to the EC President. As Senior Lawyer, he advised on trade and Euratom law, litigated 65 EC cases and served as media liaison.

Mr. Tricot is an honored graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), College of Europe (Bruges) and Assas Law School (Paris II) as well as a Harvard Kennedy School Alumnus. He holds La Sorbonne M.Phil. (DEA) with high honors in Public Law (Paris I) and Modern History (Paris IV).

Rigoberto González is a Member of the Council of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, in Nicaragua, Mr. González will contribute to the discussion by giving his territorial approach to cooperation to development, as well as offering his extensive experience of working with other decentralised governments (such as the case of Catalonia), together with multilateral organisations. Mr. Gonzalez has erved as a Consultant to the Autonomous Regional Government of RAAN (Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic), the Regional Delegate of the Nicaraguan Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and Secretary to the Civil Appeals Court of the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic, Nicaragua. Prior to his current position, Mr. Gonzalez served as a Regional Councilor, presiding over the Exterior Commission and the Planning, Economy, and Heritage Commission in Nicaragua.

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 1:15pm to 2:30pm EDT, GMT -5
Venue: Conference Room 9, UN Headquarters, NY, New York

Event reports both in PDF and Word format:

• Report for Event - Download Word Version
• Report for Event - Download PDF

  
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  Background Readings:
  

  • Triad in Crisis: The Important Relationship of Humanitarian, Intervention and Reconstruction Organisations, The International Business Community, and Societies in Conflict - PDF
  • 'From Shelf to Field - Functional Knowledge for Conflict Management' - PDF
  • The Responsibility to Protect - PDF
  • UNGA - Address by the Turkish Prime Minister - LINK
  • Turkey Address at the UN - Responsibility To Protect /UNGA - LINK
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  Speaker Profile
  Ertuğrul Apakan, born in Bornova-Izmir, Turkey, in 1947, and married with two children, was recently appointed as the Turkish Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Apakan served as the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from December 2006 until August 2009, and as Deputy Under-Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs from 2004 to 2006. From 2000, he was Director General for Bilateral Political Affairs and Maritime Affairs and Aviation.

  Having joined the Foreign Ministry in 1971, Mr. Apakan held increasingly responsible positions, including as the Second Secretary in the General Directorate of Political Affairs (1975), Head of Section in the Department of Middle East and Africa (1980), and Head of the Department of Bilateral Economic Relations (1987). He also served overseas as Second Secretary at the embassy in Vienna (1975), First Secretary in Kuwait (1978) and Counsellor of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Geneva Office (1982).

  In 1992, he was appointed Deputy Director General for Cyprus and Greece in the Foreign Ministry, and in 1996 the Turkish Government appointed him ambassador in northern Cyprus.

  Mr. Apakan received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Ankara University and earned a master's degree in economics at the Aegean University in Izmir, Turkey, in 1970.

  Moderator Profile

  Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

  Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Time: 1:15pm to 2:30pm EDT, GMT -5
Venue: Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, NY, New York

Event reports both in PDF and Word format:

• Report for Event "Security Council Reform" - Download PDF
• Report for Event "Security Council Reform" - Download DOC

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Background Readings:
Revitalizing the UN: Reform Through Weighted Voting REVIEW - PDF

Regional Representation as a Basis for Security Council Reform (Schwartzberrg) - PDF

The Illusion of UN Security Council Reform (Weiss, Thomas G.) - PDF

Speaker Profile
Joseph Schwartzberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1960. He has since taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-64 and summer, 1965), the University of Minnesota (1964-2000) and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (1979-80). His academic specialties are the geography of South Asia, political geography, and the history of cartography. He is best known as the editor and principal author of the monumental and highly innovative Historical Atlas of South Asia (University of Chicago Press, 1978 and Oxford University Press, 1992). He has authored and co-authored numerous other books and publications. Schwartzberg has done pioneering research on the geography of the Indian caste system during two years of field. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and as a consultant on South Asia to numerous publishers, Granada TV (UK) and several government agencies in the United States and India.

After 32 months of military service during the Korean War (final rank of 1st lieutenant) Schwartzberg spent an equal time backpacking throughout Europe, and much of North Africa and Asia. He has since extended his travels considerably, having now visited more than a hundred countries in all. He has lived in India (five years), Germany, France, and Spain; and is multi-lingual.

A life-long peace activist, Schwartzberg has a particular interest in the United Nations system and has published extensively on UN reform in Global Governance and other journals. His 2004 monograph, Revitalizing the United Nations: Reform through Weighted Voting, has been circulated worldwide, especially in the diplomatic community. He was a co-founder in 1996 of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, a consortium now including 73 peace and justice organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of the World Federalist Association, now Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS), chaired its Policy and Issues Commission and, for eleven years, was President of its Minnesota Chapter. He is currently a member of the international Council of the World Federalist Movement as well as the Steering Committee of the World Federalist Institute, a think-tank attached to CGS.

Moderator Profile

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Moderator Profile
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Attendees at this event benefited from speaker's sharing their experiences and research related to themes in the book. The speakers included: Albrecht Schnabel, a Senior Fellow, Research Division of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces; Betty A. Reardon, the Director, Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University; and Ms. Sam Cook, the PeaceWomen Project Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The lively Question and Answer Session that followed the presentations was moderated by UNU's Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud.

With the Worldwide in New York series, the United Nations University Office at the UN, New York, as part of its mandate, showcases the recent work of UNU Research and Training Centers/Programs (UNU-RTC/Ps) from around the world. In conjunction with other experts from different organizations, UNU researchers share new ideas and highlight new policy avenues in the areas of security, environment and development.

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 1:15pm to 2:30pm
Venue: Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, NY, New York

EVENT PICTURES

Background Readings:
Farr, Vanessa A., "Triple Jeopardy: Women, Guns and Violence", in Putting People First:
Human Security Perspectives on Small Arms Availability and Misuse, Geneva:
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2003.
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United Nations, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security, S/RES/1325 (2000), 31 October 2000.
- Website LINK

Speaker Profiles

Albrecht Schnabel is a Senior Fellow in the Research Division of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). He previously held teaching and research appointments at the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace), the University of Bern, United Nations University, Aoyama Gakuin University, Central European University and the American University in Bulgaria. He was educated at the University of Munich, the University of Nevada, and Queen's University, Canada, where he received his PhD in Political Studies in 1995. His research and publications have focused on ethnic conflict, refugees, human security, security sector reform, conflict prevention and management, peacekeeping, and post-conflict peacebuilding. He currently works on the operationalization of human security, on engaging armed nonstate actors in security sector reform, and on the role of security sector reform in peace processes.

Betty A. Reardon is the Founding Director Emeritus of the International Institute on Peace Education. She is recognized world-wide as a leading theorist, and designer of pedagogic materials and processes in peace education. She was the recipient of the special Honourable Mention Award in Paris by UNESCO at the Peace Education Prize Ceremonies in 2001 for her work with the International Institute on Peace Education. She was the initiator and the first Academic Coordinator of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education. Having taught as visiting professor at a wide range of universities in the U.S. and abroad, she has many years of experience in the international peace education movement and in the international movement for the human rights of women. She has served as a consultant to several UN agencies and education organizations and has published widely in the field of peace and human rights education, and women's issues.

Sam Cook is the Director of the PeaceWomen Project, at the UN office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - an international women's peace organization founded in 1915 in the Hague. The PeaceWomen Project monitors and advocates for the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions and commitments on women, peace and security. Ms Cook has an LLM from Columbia University Law School and focused her thesis work on exploring how the South African and Sierra Leonean Truth and Reconciliation Commissions dealt with sexual and gender-based violence. A lawyer from South Africa, Sam obtained her LLB from the University of Cape Town in and then worked for a law firm in Cape Town. Following this she worked on the academic staff of the University of Cape Town's law faculty in the private law department. A core focus of her work as an academic and activist - has been on violence against women -including work with Rape Crisis, Cape Town and on various other public interest law projects.

Moderator Profile

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

McInerney led the effort in 2008 to revamp IDLO's strategy, which is considered one of the most promising and innovative approaches in promoting the rule of law to further social and economic opportunity in developing and transitional countries. As part of the new strategy, he secured a $4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research on legal empowerment, forged working relationships with the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and the United Nations Development Programme, and managed IDLO's partnership with the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative.

Prior to joining IDLO, McInerney practiced transactional corporate and securities law for four years with the law firms of Dorsey & Whitney LLP and Ross & Hardies in New York. Later, he served as Program Manager with Social Accountability International, a nongovernmental organization specializing in corporate social responsibility. In 2001, McInerney was an adjunct professor in the Department of Ethics and Law at Fordham University's School of Business in New York.

McInerney holds a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University School of Law in Chicago, a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with Honors from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is a member of the New York and Illinois bars, and reads and speaks French, Italian, and Spanish.

He actively publishes and speaks on topics such as legal and institutional reform in developing countries, corporate governance, corporate compliance practices, and corporate social responsibility.

Mr. Stephen Golub is Consultant and Editor of the International Development Law Organization's Legal Empowerment Working Paper Series. Stephen Golub plays a prominent role in legal empowerment policy. This includes: teaching courses featuring the topic at the University of California at Berkeley and Central European University; editing the upcoming International Development Law Organization book and the recent Hague Journal on the Rule of Law special section on the topic; and research, consulting and speaking on legal empowerment for the World Bank, UNDP, the Open Society Institute, Danida and other institutions. He also co-authored the 2001 ADB study that first articulated the concept and helped design the first and largest UNDP project on the topic, the Legal Empowerment and Assistance for Disadvantaged Project in Indonesia.

Dr. Hamid Rashid is the Senior Policy Advisor and Coordinator of UNDP's new initiative for Legal Empowerment for the Poor (LEP). In discharging new responsibilities, Dr. Rashid leads UNDP's global programme in the areas of property and land rights, labor rights and entrepreneual rights in the context of poverty eradication and human development.

Prior to joining UNDP, Dr. Rashid served as the Director General for United Nations and Multilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangladesh. He was responsible for conceptualizing, coordinating and representing Bangladesh's positions on various economic issues - special and differential market access for the least developed countries, international migration and climate change - at the UN and other multilateral forums. Dr. Rashid was the national focal point for the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and chaired key GFMD sessions in Brussels and Manila. He was also the elected Chair of the Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants during 2006-2007. His research interest includes migration as well as land governance and its impact on economic growth and development. Dr. Rashid brings to UNDP nearly seventeen years of experience, working for the Government of Bangladesh and also for the World Bank and UNICEF in Dhaka, Washington D.C. and New York.

Dr. Rashid earned his Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from Columbia University in New Yorks. He also has an MPA from Columbia University and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas. He has taught graduate level courses in economics and public policy at the Columbia University and the London Business School.

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations Headquarters (New York). He was Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU headquarters (Tokyo) from 1996 to 2003. From 1992 to 1996, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing). Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in Political Science-Law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: L'introuvable démocratie autoritaire (L'Harmattan, 1996), Légitimité et Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Jean-Marc Coicaud is now finishing two new single-authored books, Kissing War Goodbye, and Knowledge and International Institutions.

Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

This conference will explore bias in sovereign ratings and the costs and impacts on lesser developed countries.

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 (Postponed from November 17, 2009)

Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST (New York Time)

Venue: Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters

Please note that the event will include a simultaneous live, interactive webcast, for those who are not able to attend in person. To receive instructions on how to participate in the webcast, please register here.

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Mr. Ravi Singh at (212) 963-6387 or e-mail singh@unu.edu

Speaker Profiles:
Joshua Rosner, Managing Director, Graham Fisher & Co.
Ann Rutledge, Founding Principal, R&R Consulting

Moderator Profile:
Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director, UNU-ONY

Joshua Rosner is a Managing Director at the independent research consulting firm Graham Fisher & Co., where he advises regulators and institutional investors on housing and mortgage finance issues. Mr. Rosner was among the first analysts to identify operational and accounting problems in the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), the peak in the housing market, the likelihood of contagion in credit markets, and the weaknesses in the credit rating agencies' collateralized debt obligation (CDO) assumptions. His work on GSEs, credit rating agencies, and mortgage markets has resulted in invitations to present both privately and publicly before numerous organizations, businesses, policymakers, legislators, and regulators. Mr. Rosner has coauthored papers on the risks of CDOs to the mortgage finance market and the risk of misapplication of ratings in the structured finance market. Previously, he was the Managing Director of Financial Services Research for Medley Global Advisors. Prior to joining Medley, Mr. Rosner was an Executive Vice President at CIBC World Markets and a Senior Vice President at its predecessor firm, Oppenheimer and Company.

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Ann Rutledge specializes in bond market development, structured finance and micro-market governance issues for exchanges and OTC markets. After serving as a special consultant to the Hong Kong Futures Exchange in the early 1990s, she became the head of J.P. Morgan's growing Asian derivative prime brokerage business. Later, as the lead structured and project finance analyst for Moody's Investors Service in non-Japan Asia, Ms. Rutledge battled sovereign ceiling issues directly. In 2000, she co-founded R&R Consulting with Sylvain Raynes, a fellow Moody's alumnus who shared her frustration with how credit rating practices distort pricing in the capital markets. More recently, Ms. Rutledge has served as the securitization expert in structured-finance litigations in the US and UK. She co-wrote two books with Dr. Raynes, both published by Oxford University Press: The Analysis of Structured Securities (2003) and Elements of Structured Finance (forthcoming in December 2009). Ms. Rutledge is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations Headquarters (New York). He was Senior Academic Officer and Director of Studies at the UNU headquarters (Tokyo) from 1996 to 2003. From 1992 to 1996, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and has taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing). Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in Political Science-Law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.

Jean-Marc Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: L'introuvable démocratie autoritaire (L'Harmattan, 1996), Légitimité et Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Jean-Marc Coicaud is now finishing two new single-authored books, Kissing War Goodbye, and Knowledge and International Institutions.

Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris).

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