Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation

Email: danielstauffacher@ict4peace.org

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Chairperson of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative

Former President on Finland 

Barbara Weekes is Director of Strategy and Content for the Geneva Security Forum and member of the policy advisory board of the ICT4Peace Foundation. Barbara also works in close collaboration with Smadja & Associates as Director of the Program for the Future of Europe Summit and is involved in projects advising clients on content and high-level symposiums including the Schulich School of Business, Toronto, and the GenevaNetwork.

In partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, she conceived and executed the business roundtable: Building strategic relationships with intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), Geneva, February 2005. As lead of the global affairs team at the World Economic Forum she was a key person in the development and execution of the program for the Annual Meeting in Davos from 1995 to 2000, in addition to designing the programs for the World Economic Forum´s Southern Africa Economic Summits in Capetown, Windhoek and Harare. Prior to her work at the World Economic Forum, Barbara was a member of the policy staff at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada responsible for the preparation of the G-7 Summit in Halifax, 1995.

Former Secretary General,

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Special Advisor to ICT4Peace Foundation
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Sanjana is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and is Head of ICT and Peacebuilding at InfoShare, both based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A Fellow of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation in Geneva, Sanjana also serves on a number of other technical assistance and project steering groups in Sri Lanka and internationally that work on issues related to peacebuilding, media and conflict transformation.

He can be contacted at sanjana [at] info-share.org and his work and research on ICT4Peace can be accessed from his personal blog on ICT4Peace.

Present position at Ericsson - Director Ericsson Response

Position description

• Responsible for disaster response management and Partnership with the United Nations, International Red Cross / Red Crescent and other relief organizations
• Promote and develop partnership through the Ericsson Response program with private sector partners.
• Develop and manage Ericsson Response regional and country rollout programs.
• Communication for All, development and roll out of “ICT for those who don’t have”.

Previous Positions in Ericsson

• Improvement Manager, GSM Supply and Implementation
• Manager for GSM Customer Project Management and Logistics, South East Asia and Middle East

Experience of special interest
13 years experience with international organizations (plus 12 years with Ericsson)
9 years of emergency relief experience with UN organizations and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies before joining Ericsson.

In connection with general relief support, provided also GSM networks for humanitarian organizations in Kabul, Afghanistan, Bam, Iran, Sri Lanka, Banda Aceh, Indonesia and Louisiana, USA

Support to disasters in Iran, Liberia, Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, El Salvador, Peru, Sudan, USA, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Chad

Roll out of GSM networks in Asia

Father to the Income tax system in Costa Rica

Dr. Linton Wells II is a Distinguished Research Professor and serves as the Force Transformation Chair at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington. Prior to coming to NDU he spent sixteen years in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, including service as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and DoD Chief Information Officer.  He was a member of the US delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005.  

Before joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a civilian, Dr. Wells served for twenty-six years as a surface line officer in the U.S. Navy.  Recently he has been focusing on STAR-TIDES, an information sharing research project in support of populations in stressed environments (www.star-tides.net).

Dr. Wells was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1946. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and oceanography. He attended graduate school at The Johns Hopkins University, receiving a Master of Science in Engineering degree in mathematical sciences and a PhD in international relations. He is also a 1983 graduate of the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, the first U.S. naval officer to attend there.

Dr. Wells has written widely on security studies in English and Japanese journals. He co-authored Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War, which was published in 1997. His hobbies include history, the relationship between policy and technology, scuba diving, and flying.   He has three times been awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Dr. Wells serves on the Advisory Board of the ICT4Peace Foundation strictly in his personal capacity.

Michael I.G.C.S. Møller was Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of Mission of United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, Nicosia until April 2008. He was also the Deputy Chef de Cabinet and Director for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs Executive Office of the Secretary-General for four years from 2001 to 2005. His career at the UN spans over 25 years and he is fluent in Danish (his mother tongue) French, English, Spanish, German, Italian and Greek.

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Commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1957, the General Officer commanded two battalions of the Maratha Light Infantry, a mechanised brigade group and a Mechanised Division. Served in operational assignments including counter-insurgency operations and took part in the 1965 and 1971 wars on the sub-continent. A graduate of the Australian Staff College (1968), he served with a training team in Iraq (1977-79), was on the faculty of the Defence Services Staff College (1980-81), and was Military Adviser at the High Commission of India in London (1984-87). As Director General of Military Operations (1991), he led two defence delegations for discussions with Pakistan. Appointed the first Force Commander and Head of the United Nations forces in the former Yugoslavia he set up and ran the mission from 3rd March 1992 to 2nd March 1993. Retired as the Deputy Chief of the Army Staff on 31st August 1994. Is a recipient of the Vir Chakra for bravery in battle, and the Ati Vishist Seva Medal and Param Vishist Seva Medal for distinguished service. Director of the United Service Institution of India since 01 July 1996, he is on the International Advisory Council of the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sandoverken, Sweden, and is an inaugural member of the International Advisory Board of the ‘Security Council Report’ and the Advisory Council of the International Network to Promote Rule of Law (INPROL).

Was Adviser to the Government of Sri Lanka on certain aspects of the peace process in 2002/2003. Served from 02 November 2003 to 30 November 2004 on a sixteen- member High Level Panel appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to review the status of international collective security mechanisms and make recommendations for reform. Is a member of an Expert Legal Inquiry set up by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) to ascertain whether there have been violations of International Humanitarian Law during the operations in Lebanon in July/August 2006.

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