Human Security - Members

Convenor:

Dr. Fen Osler Hampson, professor of international affairs and Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. He has worked as a consultant in a number of peace research institutes, including the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. He is member of the Senior Advisory Committee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior Associate at International Conflict Resolution Program, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Moreover, Dr. Hampson is Consultant to the War-torn Societies Project (WSP), UN, Geneva. His publications include: Madness in the Multitude: Human Security and World Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2001); Nurturing Peace Settlements Succeed or Fail (United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996); Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons From Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 1999).

Members:

Dr. Lincoln C Chen, Director of the Global Equity Center of Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously he served as Executive Vice President for Strategy of the Rockefeller Foundation. In addition to providing strategic guidance for Rockefeller's worldwide programs in food, health, work, culture, and global policies, Dr. Chen also served as member of a Board of Trustees committee on future strategies and chairs or directs programs in global philanthropy, a social investment Program Venture Experiment, and the Bellagio committee. Before joining the Rockefeller Foundation in 1997, Dr. Chen was Director of the University-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1982 - 1987, Dr. Chen was the Representative of the Ford Foundation in India, and in 1973 - 1980, he worked for the Ford Foundation both on its staff and seconded as Scientific Director of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh. In 2001, Dr. Chen was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of CARE, America's largest non-governmental organization working overseas.

Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka and oversees projects and programmes on multiculturalism, federalism and constitutional reform as well as education policy, and judicial approaches to pluralism. She is founder of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). She has graduated from the United Nations International School in New York, received her B.A. from Yale University, her J.D. from Columbia University, an LLM from Harvard University and an honorary Ph.D from Amherst College. She has been awarded The Human Rights Award of the International Human Rights Law Group, The Bruno Kreisky Award of 2000 and The Leo Ettinger Human Rights prize of the University of Oslo.

Mr. Martin Granholm, Senior Strategic Advisor and Deputy CEO, UPM-Kymmene Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of paper, since 1996. He joined Oy Wilh. Schauman Ab in 1970 and held posts in the company's project, production and administrative functions. Following the merger with Kymmene Corporation, he served first as Managing Director of a subsidiary company and was appointed President of Kymmene Corporation in 1992. The focus on corporate responsibility has made Mr. Granholm increasingly visible as UPM-Kymmene’s “politician”, that is, he is responsible for the company’s contacts with society as a whole and has created a new organisation for corporate responsibility to report directly to him. Mr. Granholm holds a Master of Science degree in engineering and is Doctor of Technology h.c. (Åbo Akademi 2002).

Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, General Secretary of the Olof Palme International Center, Ambassador at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and advisor on humanitarian issues. He is also UN Advisor on Human Rights for Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. Thomas Hammarberg was general secretary for Amnesty International between 1980-86, general secretary for Swedish Save the Children (1986-92), vice chairman of the UN Committee on Children's Rights (1991-97), and special envoy for the UN General Secretary for Human Rights in Cambodia (1996-2000). Mr. Hammarberg was a member of the Olof Palme International Center Committee during the early 1990's and is vice chairman of the Socialist International Committee for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights. He is a graduate of economic science and has been a teacher, a journalist in a newspaper and radio for ten years. He has written books on children's rights, democracy in education, human rights, foreign coverage in the media, the Palestinian refugee issue and the rights of Romanies.

Dr. John Mugabe, Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). He holds a doctorate degree in environmental policy from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He founded and directed the ACTS Biopolicy Institute located at Maastricht and is a member of the board of directors of the Biofocus Foundation of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, the African Conservation Centre (ACC), Kenya, and the Board of Biotechnology and Development Monitor of the University of Amsterdam. He has been a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) Maastricht. Dr. Mugabe is the editor of the Biopolicy International Series of the ACTS and the World Resources Institute (WRI). He is on the roster of experts for the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility. Dr. Mugabe is the author of many research papers and co-editor of Coming to Life: Biotechnology in Africa's Economic Recovery (with Calestos Juma); Access to Genetic Resources (with Charles Barber et. al.), Managing Biodiversity: National Systems of Conservation and Innovation (with Norman Clark). He is the author of Elusive Change: The Spread of Institutional Monocultures and Decline of Local Ecologies.

Ms. Anna Politkovskaya, Journalist and a correspondent for the Moscow biweekly Novaya Gazeta. Since 1999 she has regurlarily visited the war-torn areas of Chechnya and is well known and appreciated for her coverage of human rights abuses in the Chechnyan conflict. Ms. Politkovskaja has published two books on this prolonged war: A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (2001) and A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya (2003) . Moreover, she has reported on Ingushetia and Daghestan and on social conditions in Russia. During the Dubrovka Theatre hostage crisis in October 2002, Ms. Politovskaja was solicited to play a mediator's role during negotiations between the Chechen hostage-takers and the Russian security forces.