Annika Erickson-Pearson

Annika Erickson-Pearson is a facilitator, event manager and researcher. She is currently the Community Management Lead at the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, leading a community of 800 experts, practitioners, and policy-makers working on environmental peacebuilding. She received her Master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Sept 2020, where her research focused […]
Niklas Sax

Climate, peace and security Consultant at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, one of the research institutes at CGIAR.
Thea Synnestvedt

Climate security Visiting Researcher at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and a Human Security MSc Student at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Michael Aeby
Michael Aeby (PhD) is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Basel Centre for African Studies and the institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at the University of Cape Town.
Isidore Nsengiyumva
Isidore Nsengiyumva is an independent researched on violent extremism, fragility, transitional justice, and mass atrocity prevention. He holds a master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, previously interned at the Fund for Peace, and was a 2021 Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for Mass Atrocity and Genocide Prevention at Jimmy and Rosalyn […]
Patrick Afamefune Ikem
Richard Ponzio

Dr. Richard Ponzio is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Stimson Centre’s Global Governance, Justice & Security Programme. He previously directed the Madeleine Albright-Ibrahim Gambari Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance and served in senior positions at the U.S. State Department and United Nations. A graduate of Oxford, Fletcher, The Graduate Institute-Geneva, and […]
Kelvin Lekapua

Kelvin is a peace and conflict researcher and analyst adept in policy driven research, rapporteuring, report writing and event coordination.
Charity Mawire

Charity Mawire is a PhD Candidate within the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a multi-disciplinary background spanning across the disciplines of Economics, Development studies and Migration and Displacement. She holds a Master of Social Science degree in Development Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) […]
Tunji Namaiko

Tunji Namaiko is a Programme Officer responsible for the day-to-day coordination and operationalisation of the MoU between International IDEA and the African Union Commission under the Division for Africa and West Asia in Addis Ababa. Tunji joined International IDEA on 1 October 2020. He serves as a focal person for the coordination of activities between […]