ADEL Bios

Fatma Ahmed is currently the Capacity Building Specialist at UNDP Regional Program for Africa, based in Addis Ababa where she implements flagship projects on conflict prevention, peacebuilding, political transitions, climate security and other emerging development challenges and priorities with the African Union and regional

Marianna Albuquerque is the Deputy Director of Projects at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI). She was a substitute professor at the Institute for Strategic Studies (INEST-UFF) between 2017 and 2019, a consultant for projects in Think Tanks, and coordinator of the South American Political Observatory (OPSA/UERJ).

Macarena Ayelen Acuipil is currently an advocate for gender equality. She is a Program Coordinator for the Women's Democracy Network in Argentina, where young female candidates are empowered to step in and take decisive roles in the political arena. She is also working as Chief of Advisors to the Senator of her hometown province of Chubut and as a professor in Gender Studies at the Siglo XXI University.

Pauline Batista works at the United Nations in New York, where she serves as a Media Production Assistant for the Global Communications Division. Her research interests include UNESCO’s influence over educational curricula in Latin America and also the exploitation of Paulo Freire’s Socratic method to reinforce standards for Heritage Studies in schools located in Latin American towns seeking UNESCO Heritage Site titles.

Deborah Braide is the Nigeria Research Coordinator for University of Massachusetts-Amherst/e-GUIDE on a project to support sustainable electrification of over 250,000 small and medium scale enterprises.

Christina Caouette is a public policy and foreign affairs analyst with the Government of Canada. Currently, she contributes to developing Canada’s energy resources with the Petroleum, Gas and LNG Division at Natural Resources Canada. Her cross-departmental federal government experience has enabled her to strengthen Canada's bilateral relations with countries in Europe, Asia and South America.

Salim Dehmej is an economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF. Since he joined the international institution in 2018, he covered several topics and countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Russia, and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa - CEMAC) from different departments.

Amine Derj is a 31 years old Moroccan & French national with an industrial engineer background. Amine came back to his home country Morocco to start two businesses. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of a consulting company and an Agritech Startup called Jodoor.

Nusrat Farooq the Founding Partner at Artificial Intelligence Strategy, a consulting firm specializing in integrating trust and safety into AI strategies for public and private enterprises. Previously, she served as an analyst in Washington DC, at Global Internet Forum to Counterterrorism, established and funded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube.

Martina Ferracane is passionate about policy-making and technological innovation. She is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute, where she manages the Digital Trade Integration Project. Her research covers digital trade, data governance, and digital education.

Nallely Garza has been a strong player in both the public and private sector in promoting Mexico as a destination of FDI. Her previous experience includes Political Advisor at the State Congress of Nuevo León and senior advisor to the Ministry of Economy in the State of Nuevo Leon (which is the second most wealthy State in Mexico with a GDP of $92.3 billion dollars).

Jevanic Henry is a climate change and development professional with experience leading and supporting the development of environmental projects at multi-levels.

Fatima Hewaidi currently leads the Market Intelligence office for the Middle East at Barclays Private Bank in Switzerland. For the past four years, she was a Business Engagement Lead at the World Economic Forum, where she developed partnerships and curated dialogues among business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to this, she measured and analyzed the ease of starting a business across the Middle East and Africa as a Consultant in the World Bank's Doing Business project.

Nozuko Hlwatika is an Economic Development Manager at the National Economic Development and Labour Council in South Africa (SA) in which she manages processes and social dialogue pertaining to legislation, policies, regulations, and emerging issues concerning economic development and economic recovery.

Dysmus Kisilu is the founder of Solar Freeze, a company that specializes in providing renewable energy solutions (solar powered cold storage units) to smallholder farmers in Kenya to increase agricultural productivity. Dysmushas worked with 3,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya to increase agricultural yields by more than 150%.

Fritjof Knier is the co-founder of Integreat, a multilingual integration platform to provide understandable information for refugees and migrants arriving in a city.

Savannah Lane currently directs strategic communications for an organization focused on equipping women into the policy spaces. Prior to this role, Savannah led and directed the NATO 2030 Global Fellowship Program in support of NATO’s 2030 Strategic Concept goals.

Lavar Thomas is currently a Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. He is also a Co-founder of Leaders of the Free World, a non-profit organization that provides international experiences and leadership development to young Black men.