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Speaker Bios Biographical Notes on Speakers HE Anne Anderson Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations Until her appointment, Ms. Anderson was her country’s Ambassador to France since July 2005; and concurrently since January 2007, as non-resident Ambassador to Monaco. From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Anderson served as Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels; before which she was Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, where her responsibilities also included Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1999-2000); Vice-President of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (1997); and Chair of Trade Policy Review Body, World Trade Organization. During her diplomatic service, she has also served as Assistant Secretary General, Administration, Department of Foreign Affairs (1991-1995); Counselor, Anglo-Irish Division, Department of Foreign Affairs (1987-1991); Press Attaché, Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C. (1985-1987); Economic Attaché, Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C. (1983-1985); First Secretary, Political Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1980-1983); First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Geneva (1976-1980); First Secretary, Economic Division, Department of Foreign Affairs (1974-1976); and Third Secretary, Economic Division of the same Department (1972-1974). Hanny Cueva Beteta Policy Adviser of the Peace and Security section, Policy Division, UN Women Hanny has supported the development of National Action Plans to implement UNSCR 1325, and has been one of the main technical leading experts on the interagency work for development of indicators on women, peace and security for use at the global level as requested by Security Council Resolution 1889. She is the Practice Manager of the women, peace and security section in UN Women that oversees various global programmes on mediation and conflict resolution, peacebuilding and post-conflict planning, rule of law and transitional justice, post- conflict governance and elections, among others. Hanny was also one of the main authors of UNIFEM’s flagship report Progress of the World’s women 2008/09 “Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability”. Hanny is originally from Peru where she was a University lecturer and researcher for over 10 years, working on poverty and development issues, on which she has published extensively. She holds a BA in Economics and a MPhil in Development Studies. Prof. Yvonne Galligan Queens University Belfast Yvonne Galligan is Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely on gender and political representation, institutional reform, and democratic policy and process in a range of journals including Parliamentary Affairs, Gender & Society and European Politics and Society. Her book publications include Gender Politics and Democracy in post-socialist Europe (2007, with Sara Clavero and Marina Calloni) and Sharing Power: Women, Parliament, Democracy (2005, contributing editor with Manon Tremblay). She was a Fulbright Scholar at American University, Washington DC during 2004-05. She edited International Political Science Review from 2006-12, and in 2012 was appointed by the UK government to the McKay Independent Commission on the ‘English Question’ which reported in March 2013. This Project has been funded by the Department of Forigen Affairs Conflict Resolution Unit Bronagh Hinds Chair of the Institute for British-Irish Studies and Senior Associate with DemocraShe Bronagh Hinds is Chair of the Institute of British Irish Studies at University College Dublin and a Senior Associate with DemocraShe. She is an Honorary Senior Research Practitioner in Queen's University School of Law, a member of the Gender Advisory Panel of the Office of the First and deputy First Minister and on the Board of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. Bronagh co-founded the Women’s Coalition and was in the negotiations for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. During her career she has been a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Governance at Queen's and a director of several NGOs. A former Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, she also served as a Commissioner in the local government sector and as the Northern Ireland Commissioner for the UK Women's National Commission. Bronagh works on matters of equality, governance and peace-building for voluntary organisations, government bodies and international institutions. Bronagh was awarded UK Woman of Europe in 1998 and the International Women's Democracy Centre Global Democracy Award in 2002. Dr. Ruth Jacobson Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol Ruth Jacobson has worked on issues of conflict since the 1980s. From 1983 to 1986, she lived in the town of Lichinga, Mozambique, while working for the Ministry of Education and with the state women's organization, the Organizacao das Mulheres Mocambicanos (OMM). She completed a Master degree in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies and pursued a PhD at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, where her topic was the conceptualization and operationalization of women's citizenship in Southern Africa. In 1994, Jacobson carried out a gender audit of the postwar elections in Mozambique. After completing her PhD in 1996, she stayed on at the Department of Peace Studies as a Lecturer. She continued to teach, research, and write on war in Southern Africa but also started looking at conflicts closer to home, in Northern Ireland. She contributed a chapter on this topic to the volume she co-edited with Susie Jacobs and Jen Marchbank in 2000, States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance. After leaving full-time academic work in 2002, she has continued research on “post-conflict” Mozambique, including interviewing former female combatants and evaluating the gender aspects of civilian weapons collections programs. In 2007, she carried out an evaluation of women's peacebuilding organisations in the South Caucasus. Avila Kilmurry Director of Community Foundation of Northern Ireland The Foundation is an independent charitable grant-making organization whose mission is to drive social change. Avila Kilmurry has been working in Northern Ireland since 1975, through community work in Derry, a Community Education Project in Magee, a range of anti-poverty initiatives, and through establishing the Women’s Aid organisation. She has previously worked with the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action and as coordinator of the Rural Action Project (N.I.). In 1990, she was appointed the first Women’s Officer for the Transport & General Workers’ Union (Ireland), and has also served on the Northern Ireland Committee and on the Executive Councils of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Liz McManus Chair of the Monitoring Group of Ireland's NAP on UN Resolution 1325 Liz McManus is born in Canada in 1947 and is the founder director of the Bray Womens Refuge, a former member of Bray Town Council and Wicklow Co Council. She was elected to Dail Eireann in 1992 (-2010), was This Project has been funded by the Department of Forigen Affairs Conflict Resolution Unit Chair of the Taskforce on the Needs of the Travelling Community (1995– 1997), Minister of State for Housing and Urban Renewal 1994-1997 and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (2000 -2007). She has authored policy papers on Climate Change Law, Healthcare Reform and Renewable Energy and headed up the Labour Party campaign on the Abortion Referendum 1998. Liz McManus was awarded an M Phil with distinction in 2013, the Hennessy New Irish Writing award, Listowel Short Story award and Irish PEN award. Her first novel Acts of Subversion was shortlisted for an Irish Times/Aer Lingus First Novel award. Giulia Pasquinelli Policy Officer at the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) The European Peacebuilding Liaison Offices (EPLO) is the platform of European NGOs, NGO networks, and think tanks which are committed to peacebuilding and the prevention of violent conflict. EPLO aims to influence the EU so that it promotes and implements measures which lead to sustainable peace between states and within states and peoples, and which transform and resolve conflicts non-violently. EPLO's Gender, Peace and Security Working Group (GPS WG) works to promote the inclusion of a gender perspective and the meaningful participation of women in European peace / security policy and practice. Giulia’s work focuses on gender, peace and security, EU accession process and peacebuilding as well as EU support to peace processes. She has a background in Law and an MA International Relations. Dr. Erika Svedberg Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department for Global Political Studies, Malmö University Erika Svedberg has a PhD in Political Science from Lund University. She was a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Örebro University for 8 years. She is presently Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Department for Global Political Studies at Malmö University. Her publications include ‘Feminist Theory and International Negotiations,’ International Studies Perspectives (2002); with Annica Kronsell) Making Gender, Making War. Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices, Eds. (2012), ‘The Swedish Military Manpower Policies and their Gender Implications,’ in The Changing Face of European Conscription (2005); and ‘The Duty to Protect: Gender and the Swedish Practice of Conscription, in Cooperation and Conflict (2001). This Project has been funded by the Department of Forigen Affairs Conflict Resolution Unit .
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