Speakers, Facilitators and Organisers Booklet
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#ASEFYLS4 4th ASEF Young Leaders Summit Page 1 of 17 Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers #ASEFYLS4 4th ASEF Young Leaders Summit Page 2 of 17 Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers ASEM LEADERS & GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HE Mr Micheál His Excellency Micheál MARTIN was born in MARTIN Turners Cross, Cork. He attended University College Cork where he qualified with a Bachelor’s Taoiseach/Prime degree. He become Taoiseach on 27 June 2020. Minister of Ireland Previously, he has served as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1992-93, an on the Fianna Fáil front bench and in four cabinet posts: Minister for Foreign Affairs (2008-2011), Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (2004-2008), Minister for Health (2000-2004), and Minister for Education (1997- 2000). HE Mrs Pornpimol Her Excellency Mrs Pornpimol KANCHANALAK is KANCHANALAK currently the Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand. She has previously advised the Advisor to the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign the Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. She also Affairs of Thailand has experience as a researcher at the public policy think tank Hoover Institute and as a Lecturer at Stanford University. Her Excellency was also the Washington Bureau Chief for The Bangkok Post and Channel 9, and the Founder of the US- Thailand Business Council, as well as held leading roles in investment firms and companies in the engineering and petrochemical industry in Thailand. Ambassador Ambassador Johannes MATYASSY is currently the Johannes Deputy State Secretary at the Swiss Federal MATYASSY Department of Foreign Affairs, and since 2018 also holds the role of Director of the Consular Deputy State Directorate. He is a seasoned diplomat with over Secretary and 35 years of experience in international relations. Director of the He has been the designated Ambassador, CEO of Consular Presence Switzerland, which is the official Directorate, Swiss platform of Switzerland abroad, and Ambassador Federal Department of Switzerland to Argentina. The Ambassador also of Foreign Affairs previously held the role of ASEM Senior Official of (FDFA) Switzerland. #ASEFYLS4 4th ASEF Young Leaders Summit Page 3 of 17 Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers KNOWLEDGE BUILDING PHASE SPEAKERS By alphabetical order Dr Paloma CUCHÍ In 2018, Dr CUCHÍ assumed the position of Representative of WHO to the Republic of Poland WHO Representative and the Head of Country Office in Warsaw. She and Head of Country has more than 26 years of experience in public Office in the health in the United Nations System, in civil Republic of Poland society and in the private sector. Dr CUCHÍ was formally PAHO/WHO Representative to the Republic of Chile. She has experience at regional, country and global levels, having held technical and managerial leadership positions in WHO, PAHO, UNAIDS, and UNITAID. Some of her main areas of work include non-communicable diseases and risk factors; health promotion; aging; health emergencies and disasters response; access to medicines; HIV and other communicable diseases; migration; and gender, equity and human rights. Dr CUCHÍ holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA. Dr Youssef NASSEF Dr Youssef NASSEF has led the adaptation workstreams under the United Nations Director of the Framework Convention on Climate Change Adaptation Division, (UNFCCC) since their inception. He possesses UNFCCC over 30 years of experience in diplomacy and international environmental policy, and is a Chair, World seconded diplomat from the Egyptian Foreign Adaptation Science Service. Programme While assuming progressively higher levels of leadership at the UNFCCC, he led UNFCCC support for several initiatives on adaptation. These include the inception and support for National Adaptation Programmes of Action and National Adaptation Plans; the Nairobi Work Programme – an international knowledge hub for impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; and the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage. He recently created the Resilience Frontiers initiative which applies foresight for attaining post- 2030 resilience. Dr NASSEF holds a Doctorate degree in International Technology Policy and Management and a MALD in International Environmental Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, as well as a Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Physics from the American University in Cairo. #ASEFYLS4 4th ASEF Young Leaders Summit Page 4 of 17 Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers Ms Tanja PACIFICO Ms Tanja PACIFICO is the Chief of Mission at the IOM mission in Uruguay and Officer in Charge at Chief of Mission, IOM Paraguay. Ms PACIFICO is an Italian national International with an academic background in advanced Organization of management, communication and psychology. Migration (IOM) Ms PACIFICO joined IOM in 2009 and has since Uruguay covered several thematic areas, including Assisted Voluntary Return & Reintegration, Immigration & Border Management, Labour Mobility, Migration & Development, Migration & Environment, Public Information, Civil-Military Coordination and Migration Governance. Ms PACIFICO worked for the IOM mission in Egypt, where she was the Deputy Chief of Mission and Head of Policy, Governance and Liaison unit. Previously, she worked in the IOM mission in the Netherlands where she was Head of the Migrant Training, Resettlement and Integration Unit, covering several national and regional initiatives; and as Officer in Charge for IOM Niger. Ms Josephine Ms Josephine SIMONIAN is Head of Youth SIMONIAN Involvement Strategy for the next UNESCO World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona 2021 Head of Youth (WHEC21), reuniting high-level public and private Involvement, World stakeholders of the ecosystem. Higher Education Conference 2021, Ms SIMONIAN studied humanities and geography, United Nations then business management in Paris. As a student, Educational she led a community project of film screenings Scientific and and theatre workshops in villages in Armenia for Cultural children. She has experience working in various Organization fields, notably she worked for Paris Region’s Vice- (UNESCO) President for agricultural and economic development, and in film distribution and international sales at Le Pacte. After an internship at UNESCO researching Higher Education and Indigenous People, she joined the WHEC2021 organising team. Dr Wesley TETER Dr Wesley TETER is Senior Consultant for UNESCO’s Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Senior Consultant, Education in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a reviewer Asia and Pacific for the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship and Regional Bureau for Schwarzman Scholars, a highly selective, one-year Education, UNESCO master’s programme at Tsinghua University in Bangkok China. He is one of three co-editors of the Handbook of Education Policy by Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming in 2022) and co-editor of UNESCO’s guidelines on developing and implementing qualifications frameworks in the Asia-Pacific. As an applied researcher, he investigates collaboration in higher education and health workforce governance with projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, UNESCO, the U.S. Department of State, and World Bank. #ASEFYLS4 4th ASEF Young Leaders Summit Page 5 of 17 Speakers, Facilitators & Organisers KNOWLEDGE BUILDING PHASE FACILITATORS By alphabetical order Mr Rigoberto D. Mr Rigoberto D. BANTA Jr. is a Foreign Service BANTA Jr. Officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Republic of the Philippines. Assigned to the Foreign Service DFA’s Office of United Nations and Other Officer, Department International Organizations. He was previously a of Foreign Affairs of Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Asia-Pacific the Republic of the Centre of Education for International Philippines Understanding. He has also provided policy advice to various organisations, including the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Ministry of Interior and Safety, Ministry of Education, amongst others. He is academically trained in economics and public policy, finishing his undergraduate and graduate programmes in those fields, respectively. Mr BANTA is an ASEFEdu alumnus. Mr Oscar BOIJE Mr Oscar BOIJE is a global citizen with roots in Finland and Bolivia. He is an International Human Education Officer, Rights Law (LL.M) graduate from Lund University UNICEF Somalia in Sweden and has also studied in Finland and Colombia. Today Oscar works as an Education Officer at UNICEF Somalia. Prior to joining UNICEF, Oscar worked as a Project Manager at the Asia- Europe Foundation (ASEF) in Singapore, and before that in Brussels, Belgium, as the Partnership Manager of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN). Oscar is passionate about student & youth affairs and has been a long-term volunteer with different Erasmus+ organisations. Ms Aleksandra Ms Aleksandra BRODOWSKA has a Master’s BRODOWSKA Degree in Law from University of Warsaw. She completed part of her studies at Indiana Student Affairs University, Maurer School of Law. As a student, Coordinator, she ran a student organisation for Law and College of Europe Culture and published a couple of articles on (CoE), Natolin issues related to cultural heritage law. She is also campus a graduate from EIS programme at the College of Europe where she specialised in memory studies. As a professional,