International Conference on

Social Protection in contexts of

Fragility &

Forced Displacement Brussels

28-29 September, 2017

Speakers’ Biographies

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FRANCESCA BASTAGLI

Francesca Bastagli is Head of the Social Protection and Social Policy

Programme at ODI. She specialises in research and advisory work on the

design, implementation and evaluation of social policy, with a focus on social

protection policies and their poverty, inequality and employment outcomes.

Her most recent research is on the distributional impact of taxes and

transfers, targeting and conditionality in cash transfers, the employment

trajectories and wages of women with children. She has extensive experience

in the monitoring and evaluation of social assistance programmes and on

social protection system development, including in the context of crises and

shocks. She holds a PhD and MSc in Social Policy from the London School of

Economics and a Laurea in Economics from Bocconi University.

SHEREE BENNETT

Sheree Bennett currently serves as a Technical Advisor within the Research,

Evaluation and Learning Unit at the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

She is a part of the Evidence to Action team and leads the organization’s

strategy for increasing the use of evidence in programmatic and policy

decisions within the organization and the broader humanitarian sector. She

also supports the IRC’s Client Voice and Choice Initiative, which seeks to

improve the organization’s responsiveness to the preferences, needs,

desires and expectations of the populations the IRC serves. In her previous

role at the IRC, she worked with academic experts to design and manage

impact evaluations for governance programs in countries such as the

Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Zimbabwe. Ms. Bennet’s

background is in comparative politics, empirical methods and social psychology. She holds degrees from Yale

University.

SANDIE BLANCHET

Ms Sandie Blanchet was appointed as Director of the UNICEF Office for

Partnership with the EU, in Brussels, in July 2017. Ms. Blanchet comes with

23 years of experience with UNICEF and other UN agencies. In her previous

position, as the UNICEF Representative in Romania, she led the

implementation of the partnership agreement with authorities to accelerate

the universal realization of child rights in the country between 2012 and

2017. From 20008 to 2012, she worked as Deputy Representative in UNICEF

Moldova, focusing on education and child protection reforms for the most

vulnerable children. Earlier, she was the Knowledge and Communication

Manager in UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen, where she improved

communication and knowledge management on the procurement of

essential supplies for children inside and outside the Organization. Between

1996 and 2002, Ms. Blanchet contributed to UNICEF's advocacy on child rights and partnerships with the media

first in Vietnam, and then in India. She graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Aix-en-Provence), and

has a MA in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies.

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JOANNE BOSWORTH

Dr. Joanne Bosworth is UNICEF’s Regional Advisor on Social Policy for

Europe and Central Asia, covering 21 countries with a focus on child

poverty, social protection and public financial management for

children. She has over twenty years’ experience working on poverty,

economic and social rights in diverse contexts in Europe and Africa,

including support to the development of social protection for children

in Kenya and Uganda. She has wide experience in research, evaluation,

policy engagement and programme management in the field of social

policy and social protection including social development in the context

of decentralization. She has contributed to numerous publications on

social protection and child poverty, including the “Social Monitor 2015:

Social protection for Child Rights and Wellbeing in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia”

and “From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa”.

TILMAN BRÜCK

Professor Tilman Brück is the Founder and Director of ISDC - International

Security and Research Center in Berlin and Team Leader of Development

Economics at IGZ – Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops,

Germany. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the „Households

in Conflict Network” (HiCN). Professor Brück's research interests focus on

the economics of household behaviour and well-being in conflict-affected

and fragile economies, including the measurement of violence and conflict

in household surveys and the impact evaluation of peace-building programs

in conflict-affected areas and of humanitarian assistance. He was previously

Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and

Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in

economics from the University of Oxford.

DOMINIQUE BURGEON

Dominique Burgeon, a national of Belgium, holds an M.Sc. Diploma in

Agricultural Engineering from the State University of Gembloux, Belgium

and a post-graduate degree in International Relations and European

Integration from the State University of Liège, Faculty of Law, Belgium. He

has over 20 years of professional experience with FAO in various functions

in the field and in headquarters. In July 2011, he was appointed as

FAO Representative in Bangladesh, overseeing one of the largest country

programmes of the Organization putting in practice the concepts of

disaster risk management for food and nutrition security. In November

2012, he was appointed Director of FAO’s Emergency and Rehabilitation

Division. Mr Burgeon also leads the FAO Corporate work on Increasing the

resilience of agriculture-based livelihoods to threats and crises.

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JONATHAN CAMPBELL

Jonathan is the WFP Deputy Country Director in Turkey where he oversees

the operations assisting Syrian and other refugees. He supervises the

programme and monitoring units as well as the area offices ensuring WFP

coverage across Turkey.

A long-term WFP staff member, Jonathan has worked predominantly in

emergencies, serving with WFP in various positions before coming to

Turkey including as Emergency Coordinator for the Syrian response in

Jordan, regional emergencies office for the MENA region during the Arab

Spring and head of programme for the tsunami response in Sri Lanka.

Before WFP, Jonathan worked for NGOs in DR Congo and Kosovo.

TED CHAIBAN

Ted Chaiban was appointed as Director of Programmes for UNICEF in August

2014. Working for UNICEF, he has been Director of Emergency Programmes,

Representative in Ethiopia, Sudan and Sri Lanka, Regional Emergency

Advisor for the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and Deputy

Chief of Operations for the Operation Lifeline Sudan consortium based in

Nairobi. Prior to joining UNICEF, Mr. Chaiban was Country Representative

for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan. He also

worked as a Programme Manager focusing on food security and child

survival. Mr. Chaiban is a national of both the United States of America and

Lebanon. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Political Science from Tufts University and a

Master of Arts Degree in Development and Arab Studies from Georgetown University, USA.

JOSEPH CHEGE

Mr. Joseph Chege is a food security specialist with USAID East Africa mission.

He possesses extensive experience in the formulation and implementation

of emergency food security programmes. He has 7 years’ experience in cash

transfer programmes in fragile context having previously worked in different

capacities for International NGOs implementing food security programmes

in Somalia. In the last one year, Joseph has been instrumental in the design

and implementation of large scale cash transfer programme funded by

USAID FFP to prevent famine in Somalia. He holds a Master’s degree in

Project management from University of Nairobi and Bachelor degree in food

and nutrition from Egerton University. He is a certified monitoring and evaluation professional.

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OLEKSANDRA CHURKINA

Deputy Minister for European Integration, Ministry of Social Policy of

Ukraine (since September 2017). Responsible for child protection, social

services and international relations portfolio. Social policy officer, UNICEF

Ukraine (2014 - 2017). Responsible for child poverty, social protection and

public finance for children programmes. Head of Financial Policy

Department, Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research (2011-

2014). Lead the design and implementation of result based budgeting at

sub-national level. Lead Economist, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, World

Bank Projects’ Coordination Section (2008-2011). Member of the National

Inter-Ministerial Commission on Child’s rights (since 2014). Author of more than 50 publications.

SARAH COOK

Sarah Cook is currently the Director of UNICEF’s Office of Research-

Innocenti and was formerly Director of the United Nations’ Research

Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) from 2009-2015. Formerly a

Fellow at IDS, Sussex, she had undertaken extensive research on social and

economic transformations in China, on social protection, labour markets

and gender. Publications include Social protection as development policy -

Asian perspectives (edited with Naila Kabeer, 2010); ‘Harsh Choices: Chinese

Women’s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic

Reform’ (with Xiao-yuan Dong) in Development and Change (2012) and

recent papers on social policy in China’s response to crisis.

KENN CROSSLEY

Kenn Crossley is currently Deputy Director of Policy and Programme

Division. Responsible for Cash based Transfer, Social Protection and Safety

Nets and Climate Risk management. He has also held posts for WFP as Chief of

Hunger Solutions, Deputy Country Director in Cambodia, and Deputy Director

of US Government Relations. Previous program experience includes filed

assignments with WFP, UNICEF, and the Canadian International Development

Agency in southern Africa, Kenya, and pre-independence south Sudan. A

Canadian national, Mr. Crossley holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the

University of British Columbia.

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JEAN-LOUIS DE BROUWER

Jean-Louis De Brouwer, a Belgian, is Director for Europe, Eastern

Neighbourhood and Middle East as of July 2016, in the European

Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and

Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). He joined ECHO in November 2012

as Director of Operations for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, having

previously been Director in charge of the coordination of employment

politics in the Commission's department for Employment and Social Affairs.

Prior to that, he spent 18 years in the Justice and Home Affairs department,

specialising in migration and asylum questions, latterly as Director in charge

of border and visa issues. Before joining the European Commission, Mr De

Brouwer worked in the Belgian civil service (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs). Mr De

Brouwer has Masters Degrees in Law and Sociology from the Catholic University in Louvain, where he also did

his undergraduate degree in Political Sciences. He is a lecturer in International Relations and EU Affairs at the

same university. Born in 1954, he is married with four children.

MASSIMO DE LA ROSA

Massimo has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of

development cooperation and humanitarian aid working for international

institutions such as the European Commission, the United Nations and for

civil society organizations posted in Africa, in Asia and in the Balkans. Over

the extensive time in developing countries, he contributed in developing

tools to promote innovative approaches to enhance the strategic dialogue

between humanitarian and development stakeholders to deal differently

with recurrent and protracted crisis in fragile and conflict affected contexts.

His technical expertise in food security, livelihoods and social protection

have been conducive to hold the current position with the EU as ECHO

global thematic coordinator for Forced Displacement and Migration. He

holds a university degree in political science and international relations

(Milan, Italy) and a post-graduate degree in socio-economic changes in rural contexts (Imperial College,

London. UK).

STEFAN DERCON

Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of

Government and the Economics Department, a Fellow of Jesus College, and

Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study of African Economics. Since

2011 he has been Chief Economist of the Department of International

Development (DFID), the UK’s government department in charge of aid

policy and spending. Stefan holds the post of DFID’s Chief Economist while

teaching and researching at Oxford. His current research focuses on the

political economy of development, the challenge of economic

transformation and industrialization in Africa, and links between

psychology and poverty.

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UGO GENTILINI

Ugo Gentilini is a Senior Economist with the Social Protection and Jobs Global

Practice at the World Bank. His interests encompass the analytics and

practice of social protection, including as they relate to fragility and

resilience, urbanization, food security and nutrition, activation and labor

markets, political economy of redistribution, universal basic income, human

development, and the nexus between safety nets and humanitarian

assistance. Before joining the World Bank in 2013, he spent over a decade

with the United Nations World Food Programme, working on policy,

implementation, and evaluation of cash- and food-based social assistance.

He holds a PhD in development economics and has dozens of publications in

books, academic journals, working paper series, and the blogosphere.

RIC GOODMAN

Ric Goodman is DAI Europe Director for Resilience. His focus is on shock-

responsive social protection solutions to extreme vulnerability, often in

hard to reach areas. Since 2014 he has been Team Leader for the DAI-

managed Hunger Safety Net Programme in Kenya. Previously Ric also lead

design and implementation of the “graduation” approach of the Chars

Livelihoods Programme in Bangladesh for 5 years, which provided cash,

assets and income generating skills directly to vulnerable families,

combined with social and technical support, supporting basic needs and

increased economic activity. He has acted in a variety of project management and technical advisory roles,

including with EU ASiST in Somalia and Sudan, and ECHO, DFID and Australian DFAT worldwide.

CAMILLA HAGSTRÖM

With an educational background in political science and international

relations, Camilla Hagström joined the European Commission in 1995, where

she has always worked in the field of external relations. With a career focused

on good governance and justice and home affairs issues, she is particularly

experienced in the area of external cooperation on migration and asylum.

After four years as deputy Head of Development cooperation in the EU

Delegation to the Philippines, in 2012 she was appointed Head of Section for

Migration and Asylum in DG DEVCO. Since 2017 she is the deputy Head of Unit

of DEVCO.B3; Migration, Employment.

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JUERGEN HOHMANN

Juergen Hohmann is working as social protection expert in unit B3

(Migration, Employment; Inequalities) of DG DEVCO. As part of his

assignment at the Commission, he initiates, contributes to and manages

various actions in the area social protection, often across DGs and in close

collaboration with EU MS and international organizations. He represents the

European Commission in SPIAC-B, the global coordination mechanism on

social protection. He has a track-record in experience of social protection

and health systems in the EU, Asia and Africa, where prior to his work for

the Commission he has performed many advisory missions on macro-

economics, system design and financing and on the curricula development

of short and long-term academic trainings in social protection, including social assistance, health, pension and

long-term care.

GÖRAN HOLMQVIST

Göran Holmqvist is, since August 2017, director of the Department of Asia,

Middle East and Humanitarian Assistance at the Swedish International

Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). He has previously held various

management positions at Sida. During 2012-17 he was associate director at

UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, which is known for its research on

impact evaluations of cash transfers. Göran Holmqvist has an academic

background as an economist with a PhD in peace and development studies.

INGRID-GABRIELA HOVEN

Ms Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director-General, has been working at the BMZ in

various positions since 1986, i.a. as Special Envoy for Climate and

Development in the run-up to the climate conference in Paris. From 2010 to

2104, Ms Hoven served as Executive Director to the World Bank Group,

representing Germany. Ms. Hoven was a member of the board of GAVI, the

Vaccine Alliance. She served as a Co-chair of the Global Facility for Disaster

Reduction and Recovery and was a board member of the Green Climate Fund

and the Global Environment Facility. Ms. Hoven studied economics and

political science at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and University Paris

IX/Dauphine and is alumni of the postgraduate studies at the German

Development Institute (GDI).

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MARJETA JAGER

Marjeta JAGER is currently Deputy Director General for the Directorate-General

for International cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO). Ms JAGER has

been working in the European Commission since 2005, starting as Director for

Security in DG Energy and Transport and later being Director for international

energy and transport files and coordination, as well as being Head of Cabinet of

the Transport Commissioner. Before joining the Commission Ms JAGER was

more than a decade working on the accession of Slovenia to the EU for the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she was the first Coreper I Ambassador of

Slovenia to the EU.

SHERAZ AHMAD KHAN

Dr. Sheraz earned his graduate degree in clinical medicine and Master’s

degree in Public Health. Conducted thesis on comparative analysis of

different Social Health Protection Initiatives in Pakistan and evaluated their

conformity with the concept of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable

Development Goals. Joined Social Health Protection Initiative after

conducting thorough research on the same. Started current job in lines with

ambition to make healthcare affordable and equitable in Pakistan. From

Sept 2013 to Sept 2015, worked as focal person for social protection

initiatives under direct supervision of Minister for Social Welfare, special

education & Women Empowerment. Coordinated social assistance activities

on behalf of Minster Social welfare for facilitating the exodus of internally

displaced people (IDPs) in 2014 in aftermath of Army’s decisive action against terrorists in North Waziristan

Agency. Led a delegation of KP government officials to Japan for a short course. This course was titled "Capacity

Development of Government Officers on Social inclusion of Persons with Disabilities". Upon the lessons learnt

in this course, policy suggestions were made to Govt of KP, leading to various institutional reforms for social

protection of persons with disabilities. Was part of another Govt delegation to Germany, with focus on

“Protection of women against all forms of discrimination”. Subsequent to inputs from this delegation, various

measures were put in place at KP, in order to protect the vulnerable women of the province.

CAMILLA KNOX-PEEBLES

As Deputy Humanitarian Director, Camilla oversees Oxfam’s Global

Humanitarian Team's work on Local Humanitarian Leadership, Capacity

Building, WASH and support to Oxfam’s emergency programmes in the

Horn, East and Central Africa and Asia. In her previous role, as Head of

Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods, Camilla oversaw Oxfam’s work

on cash transfer programming and social protection programmes. She

also contributed to numerous articles on food security issues and to the

development of improved toolkits including WFP's Emergency Food

Security Assessment (EFSA) and the Emergency Market and Mapping and

Analysis (EMMA). She is also the author of WFP's handbook for NGOs

on ‘How to work with WFP’ (2005). Camilla has 20+ years experience of leading assessments, evaluations and

running programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America and worked previously as a consultant to WFP, FAO,

DfID and other International NGOs such as Save the Children UK. Camilla holds a BA in Social Anthropology

with Indonesian Studies from SOAS, London University and an MSC in International Health from Queen

Margaret University, Edinburgh.

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CHARLES KNOX-VYDMANOV

Charles Knox-Vydmanov is the Global Adviser on Social Protection at

HelpAge International. His work involves direct technical support and

training to government, and supporting HelpAge offices and network

members to advocate for better pension policy. His ten years at HelpAge

have included policy engagement and analysis in countries including

Bangladesh, Belize, Kenya, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malawi, Mozambique,

Myanmar, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania and Zambia. Charles has been

involved in extensive evidence gathering and research on pensions,

including leading the development of HelpAge’s Social Pensions Database

hosted on www.pension-watch.net.

SARAH LAUGHTON

A Canadian national, Sarah has 20 years’ experience with WFP, managing diverse safety net and other programmes in various country offices including Uganda, Swaziland, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and also previously serving in the policy division at HQ. Her work includes policy direction, technical guidance and support, and corporate knowledge for WFP to increasingly support countries to achieve their Zero Hunger and SDG targets through country social protection programmes.

CARELL LAURENT

Joined USAID as a Foreign Service Officer in 1994 and has served in this

capacity in Ethiopia, Haiti and Washington DC. Among her positions within

USAID, she has served as Division Chief in the Office of Food for Peace, Office

Chief in USAID/Haiti’s Food Security Office and, currently, as Deputy Director

of USAID’s Center for Resilience. Previous to USAID, she worked for CARE

International from 1983 to 1994 in Chad and in Haiti. Carell Laurent received

her BA in Anthropology at Brown University, Providence RI and her MA in

International Economics and Comparative Politics from Johns Hopkins

University, School of Advanced International Studies, Wash. DC. Carell grew

up in Ghana; Madagascar; New York, and Sri Lanka. She is the mother of two:

her son, Nicholas is 30 and her daughter, Caitlin Gabrielle is 25.

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EWEN MACLEOD

Ewen Macleod is currently Special Adviser to the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Development Cooperation. He was

formerly head of the Policy Development and Evaluation Service at UNHCR

in Geneva. He has worked in development and humanitarian assistance

operations for the United Nations (UN) and the European Commission (EC)

holding both field based and headquarters positions. During the course of a

thirty year career he has been involved in many complex humanitarian crises

and post conflict reintegration operations in Asia, the Middle East, and

Africa.

NISAR MAJID

Nisar Majid (PhD) has worked in and on Somali-related issues since the late

1990s. His early work was in food security and livelihoods analysis (including

early warning) and latterly he has studied and worked on Somali diaspora

and remittance dynamics. Recently he has been working on studies looking

at access and programme quality in volatile contexts, corruption in

humanitarian aid and remittances and vulnerability, all with a focus on

Somalia. He recently co-authored 'Famine in Somalia: Competing

Imperatives, Collective Failure'.

MARIA CLARA MARTIN Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,

UNHCR Quito, Ecuador. M.A. in Latin American Studies (History, Politics

and Development), University of London. Licence in Applied Foreign

Languages, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Before her

assignment as UNHCR Representative in Ecuador, she worked as Chief of

the Americas Section at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human

Rights in Geneva. Prior to working with OHCHR she was Head of the

Appeals and Reports Unit at the Donor Relations and Resource

Mobilization Service of UNHCR, and also UNHCR’s Senior European Affairs

Officer in Brussels. Mrs. Martin was a Protection Consultant for the World

Food Programme (WFP), and Head of UNHCR Field Offices in Rwanda and

Mozambique. She also worked as Human Rights Observer in the UN/OAS International Civil Mission in Haiti.

Her experience in human rights and refugees started in 1986, when Mrs. Martin worked for Amnesty

International in London for seven years. She has also worked as a journalist and as Producer for the BBC in

London.

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EPPU MIKKONEN-JEANNERET

Ms Eppu Mikkonen-Jeanneret (BA Hons, MA at School of Oriental and

African Studies) is the Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy at the Ministry

for Foreign Affairs of Finland. She has worked in the field of social policy since

2000, with extensive experience in the transitional economies in the Balkans

and Central Asia. She has a specific interest in the enabling role of social

protection systems in the context of demographic change and labour market

transformations, including the dimensions of disability and gender. Before

the MfFA she worked as Head of Policy for HelpAge International where she

led the initiative on life-course approach to ageing in development.

ANDREW MITCHELL

Andrew Mitchell is the Senior Solutions Officer for Social Protection and

Resilience at UNHCR. He has a geosciences background in the private sector,

and since 2002, has engaged with front-line humanitarian work with French

INGOs as a water engineer, Country Representative, Desk Officer and Risk

Management expert. He later worked as a consultant with development

donors on risk management, resilience and social protection. He joined

UNHCR in 2016, and is charged with harnessing the cash-based

interventions, public health, education, community-based protection,

livelihoods and disaster preparedness capacity of UNHCR under a whole-of

social protection approach in protracted forced displacement contexts. He has graduate and doctorate

degrees in geosciences from the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia.

FLORENCE NAKIWALA KIYINGI

Honourable Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, State Minister for Youth and Children

Affairs is a champion for youth empowerment and child rights in Uganda.

At the 9th Commonwealth Youth Ministers’ Meeting held in Kampala in July

2017 she successfully organised a high level meeting where a concept on

empowering families and communities to care for children was launched by

Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC the Secretary General of Commonwealth in the

company of the First Lady of Uganda Janet Kataaha Museveni. Honourable

Florence is the Chairperson of a presidential initiative, the Uganda North

American Youth Development Association Inc which brings over 4 Million

Ugandan youth together with the sole purpose of organizing youth for

economic empowerment and development. She has held several leadership positions in numerous capacities

in the past 25 years.

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RAMAZAN ÖZDAĞ

Republic of Turkey Ministry of Family and Social Policy Deputy General

Director of Social Assistance Ramazan Özdağ, started his professional carrier

at Ministry of Finance in 1989. Özdağ is expert of financial management and

budgeting. He has been working intensively on financial management of

social assistances since 2008. In 2011, Özdağ was appointed as a Head of the

Department which is responsible for financial management of Social

Assistance and Solidarity Fund which is the biggest social assistance fund

funded by the State in Turkey and he has been working as Deputy General Director of Social Assistances since

2014. Ramazan Özdağ is responsible for coordinating social assistance programs financed by foreign sources

for Syrians and the other foreigners in Turkey.

LEILA PAKKALA

Leila Pakkala is the UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa,

responsible for leadership and guidance to 21 country offices, and

representation with governments, donors, civil society and private sector.

Ms. Pakkala was previously UNICEF’s Director of Private Fundraising and

Partnerships, leading the strategic relationship of the organization with its

National Committees and guiding private sector fundraising and partnership

activities that generate over a third of the organization’s revenue. She has

also worked with UNICEF in senior management positions in Mozambique,

Somalia, FYR Macedonia, and in technical advisory roles with UNICEF in

Uganda, with UNDP in Ethiopia and with the private sector in Lesotho.

Ms. Pakkala brings more than 24 years of development and humanitarian

programming, private sector engagement, and organizational management

experience to her function. She holds post-graduate and graduate degrees

in psychology, and a diploma in special education. She is a qualified counsellor in child development

psychology.

MONIQUE PARIAT

Monique Pariat is appointed Director-General in DG Humanitarian Aid and

Civil Protection as from 1st September 2015. Prior to this post, she was

Deputy Director-General in DG "Agriculture and Rural Development". She

was responsible for EU international and trade relations in the area of

agriculture and rural development, and for further developing EU

agricultural quality policies. She was also Director for the Mediterranean and

the Black Sea in DG "Fisheries and Maritime Policy", Director for General

Affairs in DG "Justice, Freedom and Security" and Director for Resources in

DG "Agriculture and Rural development". She has been an official at the

European Commission since 1987. She graduated from the Institute of

Political Studies of Strasbourg and holds a degree from the College of Europe

in Bruges.

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AMBER PETERMAN

Dr. Peterman is a quantitative impact evaluation specialist working at the

UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti on large-scale social protection

evaluations focusing on gender and youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously

she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina and a

Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute based in

Washington DC., Kampala and Dakar. Dr. Peterman has led or contributed to

over a dozen impact evaluations of cash and in-kind transfer programs,

including in refugee hosting and fragile settings of northern Ecuador, Uganda

and Yemen.

CHRIS PORTER

Chris Porter has 19 years professional experience with the UK Department for

International Development (DFID), UNHCR, OCHA and as an independent

consultant working for clients including the World Bank, UNICEF and the Red

Cross. Between 2010-2014, he was DFID’s senior humanitarian and resilience

adviser based in Nairobi covering Somalia and Kenya. Subsequently, he was

appointed DFID’s global Humanitarian Head of Profession, where he

continues to explore the potential of transitioning some shorter term

humanitarian assistance into nascent social protection-like mechanisms in

more fragile contexts.

ANDREAS PROKSCH

Andreas Proksch has been Director General of GIZ’s new Sector and Global

Programmes Department (GloBe) since September 2015. He headed up the

company’s Africa Department from 2007 until 2015 and let GTZ’s Corporate

Development Unit from 2001 until 2007. He has a total of 17 years’

experience working abroad, in Ecuador, Nepal, Pakistan and Viet Nam.

During this time he held management positions (as GTZ country director)

and was responsible for urban and regional development programmes. He

was a founding member and for many years international coordinator of the

‘Learning Network on Capacity Development’ (LenCD), and is an Africa

expert with a proven track record. Mr Proksch graduated in economic and

social science. He began his professional career with the Friedrich Naumann

Foundation in Bonn.

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MARYAN QASIM

Dr. Maryan Qasim is a medical doctor, a humanitarian and a politician.

She worked as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist as well as a University

lecturer and a community activist in Somalia, Yemen, the Netherlands and

Great Britain. She is currently serving as the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs

and Disaster Management in the Federal Government of Somalia since March

2017. Previously she served as the Minister for Human Development and

Social Services, which included the portfolio of Health and Education in 2012

– 2014. She also served in 2010 - 2011 as the Minister for Women's

Development and Family Welfare. She has also served as Goodwill

Ambassador for the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal

Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) in Somalia. Besides Somali, Dr. Qasim is also fluent in English, Dutch, Arabic and

Italian.

IRENÉE ARIMANANA RAVELOJAONA Je suis économiste de formation et travaillant dans le domaine de la

protection sociale depuis 10 ans. J’étais directeur de la réponse aux Chocs

et Protection contre les risques sociaux de 2014 à 2016. Actuellement

Directeur Général de la Protection Sociale auprès du Ministère de la

Population, de la Protection Sociale et de la Promotion de la Femme où je

suis chargée de la coordination des interventions de protection sociale et

assure la coordination du groupe thématique Protection sociale incluant le

sous-groupe cash transfert co-leadé avec Unicef. Contact :

iravelojaona@yahoo.fr

BYRON ALFONSO ROMERO PENA Undersecretary of Family – Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion.

Economist with mention on Business Management; Specialized in Public

Administration. Mr. Romero is in charge of planning, coordinating,

managing, and evaluating public policy, plans, programs, strategies and

projects aimed to reduce poverty and vulnerability, with special emphasis

in priority groups. Before being nominated as Undersecretary, Mr. Romero

developed and implemented several business coaching training

programmes with a human development perspective to improve the

productivity of enterprises, all over the country. Mr. Romero has also been

Consultant for the public sector. He provided support to the Ministry of

Public Health in decision-making processes related to investments in the Health sector, as well as with the

assessment of programmes and projects. He was also part of the team that developed a Logistics Plan for the

National Port System for the Coordinating Minister of Production, Employment and Competitiveness.

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VALERIE SCHMITT

Valerie Schmitt is the Deputy Director, Social Protection Department, ILO

Geneva. She is also leading ILO’s Flagship programme on building social

protection floors for all. Born in 1972, Ms. Schmitt holds a Master of

Advanced Studies (first year of doctoral studies programme) in

quantitative economics from Paris Sciences Economiques (Laboratoire du

Delta) and a Master of Business Administration with honours from HEC

(Europe's highest ranked MBA programme by the Financial Times). She

also holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris

IV – La Sorbonne. Ms. Schmitt joined the ILO in 2003. She has 20 years of

progressively responsible professional experience in the field of social

protection, combining both headquarters and field experience in various

types of organizations: the ILO at HQ, in Africa and Asia, the corporate sector in France, and a NGO in Africa.

FEDERICO SPANO

Federico Spano is a Social Protection and Resilience specialist. He holds a

M.Sc. Diploma in science of politics and two post-graduate degree in

international cooperation and sustainable territorial development.

Federico has over 7 years of experience in the sector working for several

international NGOs and consultancy firms as resilience coordinator,

project manager and researcher in development and emergency contexts

such as Afghanistan, Brazil, Italy and Venezuela. In 2015 he joined FAO to

work on the linkages between social protection, resilience and climate

change policies. He covers a number of activities ranging from developing

research, capacity development and guidance material, to providing direct

technical support to countries, working on resource mobilization and

external partnerships.

PIA STJERNVALL

Pia Stjernvall currently works as an Ambassador for Civilian Crises

Management at the Finnish MFA. Prior to this position, she worked as the

Head of Mission for EUPOL Afghanistan (before that being the Deputy

Head of Mission and the Acting Head of Mission). Ms. Stjernvall has

previously been the Special Representative for International Dialogue on

Peacebuilding and State-building (IDPS) at the MFA Finland and the

Coordinator for Mediation at the MFA. She also has served i.a. as Charge

d’Affaires at the Embassy of Finland in Kabul and as Finland’s Deputy

Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in Kenya.

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CHRYSTELLE TSAFACK TEMAH

Chrystelle Tsafack Temah has 12 years of experience in development work.

She is currently Chief of Social Policy in UNICEF Mali. Chrystelle has been

working with UNICEF for five years in the field of economic and social policy.

Before joining UNICEF Chrystelle worked as an Economist for the United

Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa and as a Lecturer

in Economics at the University of Auvergne, France. She has extensive

working knowledge of many countries in Africa, including Burundi,

Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Togo and Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in

Economics from the University of Auvergne.

MITO TSUKAMOTO

Ms. Tsukamoto joined the ILO in 1994, where she has worked in various

capacities – and has worked on sustainable infrastructure development since

about 2005. Linking humanitarian livelihoods, employment policy and

natural and physical infrastructure development, she has worked in Bangkok

and in Geneva on community-driven efforts to use employment intensive

investments through public works programmes (PWP) over the last 11 years.

She led the ILO team in strengthening the synergies between public

employment programmes (PEP), social protection floor (SPF) and climate

change adaptation to address the different multiple objectives of PWPs –

and highlighting their economic, social and environmental impact in addressing the need for decent work and

social justice. In her most recent posting, she has contributed to the ILO’s response to the global economic and

financial crisis where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards the right to work: Innovations in Public

Employment Programmes (PEP)” a “Guidebook for designing innovative PEPs”, and managed a team in the

development of the training course and material on the same topic. She also continues to work on adaptation

to climate change issues, where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards an ILO approach to climate

change adaptation” and on youth employment where she co-authored “Boosting youth employment through

PEPs”.

ARTHUR VAN DIESEN

Arthur van Diesen is the Regional Social Policy Adviser for UNICEF in the

Middle East and North Africa. He has twenty-five years of experience in social

policy, applied social research, monitoring and evaluation and programme

management. Arthur has worked and lived in Africa, South and Central Asia,

and the Middle East. He has worked for the United Nations, for bilateral aid

agencies and for international NGOs. His career has included both advisory

and managerial functions, both of which he thoroughly enjoys. Arthur is a

sociologist by training, with a Master’s Degree from Tilburg University in The

Netherlands. His main areas of technical expertise include: social policy,

social protection, poverty analysis, gender equality and women’s empowerment, civil society

development, and monitoring and evaluation.

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FÁBIO VERAS

Fábio Veras holds a PhD in Economics from University College London

(2004). He is currently one of the Research Coordinators of the International

Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). He is on leave from the Institute

for Applied Economic Research (Ipea). He has worked with impact

evaluation of cash transfers programmes in countries such as Brazil,

Paraguay, Mozambique and Yemen. He has had his work published in the

Journal of Development Effectiveness and the Latin American Research

Review, and has written book chapters on the comparative analysis of cash

transfer programmes.

NATALIA WINDER ROSSI

Natalia Winder Rossi is a senior social protection specialist with experience in Latin

America and Eastern and Southern Africa. Currently, she is Deputy Director Ad

Interim of the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division, as well as Social

Protection team leader and Delivery Manager. She is leading FAO’s work in

strengthening policy and programmatic linkages between social protection,

productive inclusion, nutrition and resilience. Prior to joining FAO, she was the

Senior Social Protection Specialist (Social Protection) at UNICEF’s Regional Office

for Eastern and Southern Africa, and Social Protection Officer in UNICEF-

Headquarters in New York. Ms. Winder has also worked at the Inter-American

Development Bank and the Organization of American States in social policy and

protection programmes in Latin America. Natalia holds a Master’s of Science

degree in Foreign Service (Economic Development) from Georgetown University, a Master’s of Science in Social

Policy Research from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

ALEXANDRA YUSTER

Alexandra Yuster is Associate Director, Programme Division, UNICEF HQ,

leading UNICEF’s work on Social Policy and Inclusion, which encompasses social

protection. She served as UNICEF Representative in Moldova from 2008 to

2013, and previously at HQ as well as UNICEF Country Offices in Mozambique,

Zimbabwe, and India. While in Moldova, UNICEF helped the government to

maintain and strengthen social protection during the economic crisis. At

UNICEF HQ from 2003-2008, Ms Yuster was part of a multi-agency effort to

advance child-sensitive social protection. During previous UNICEF postings her

work encompassed health, child protection, HIV, and social policy. Born and

raised in NYC, she holds a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Public Health.