Our Board
Thomas Greminger
Ambassador Thomas Greminger is the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Ambassador Greminger served as Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from
Dieter von Blarer
Dieter von Blarer is an attorney at law (Swiss bar) with legal practice in Aesch near Basel. Born in Aesch near Basel, Dieter studied law in Fribourg i.Ue and passed
Dr Evelyne Tauchnitz
Dr Evelyne Tauchnitz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Ethics ISE, University of Lucerne, where she is conducting research on the impact of the digital transformation
Molly McUsic
Molly McUsic is the President of the Wyss Foundation, a private, charitable foundation dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities, and strengthen connections to the land.
Funmi Olonisakin
Professor ’Funmi Olonisakin is Vice-President International, Engagement and Service (IES) at King’s College London. She is also Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at the African Leadership Centre in the
Juan Carlos Sainz Borgo
Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo is Professor and Dean at UPEACE. He is also Associate Professor of International Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and has been since 1998.
Tim Radjy
Tim Ready is the Founder of and a Managing Partner at AlphaMundi Group Ltd since 2008, the Chairman of the SocialAlpha Investment Fund SICAV-SIF launched by AMG in Luxembourg in
Hansjorg Wyss
An exceptional and prolific philanthropist, Hansjörg Wyss has funded many initiatives promoting innovative ideas, new tools, and unprecedented collaborations in areas of education, arts, science, engineering, conflict resolution and land
Founder
Anne Gloor
Anne Gloor conceived, founded, and helped set up the PeaceNexus Foundation from 2008 to 2011, and was its Executive Director from 2011 to 2014. Since then, she has mostly worked
Management Team
Catriona Gourlay
As PeaceNexus’ Executive Director, Catriona guides the foundation’s overall strategic direction, in collaboration with the board, and oversees the foundation’s services and programmes. Before joining PeaceNexus, Catriona worked as an
Peter Cross
Peter is Deputy Director at PeaceNexus, leading the teams in our focus regions: Central Asia, Southeast Asia, West Africa and the Western Balkans. Peter has worked with think tanks, NGOs,
Magali Khéloui
Magali is the Finance and Administration Director at PeaceNexus, supervising the Finance Administrator. She has 16 years of international work experience in finance and strategy in the private sector, especially
Prangins Team
Carole Frampton-de Tscharner
Carole leads the Organisational Development (OD) service offer. She provides support and facilitates learning for PeaceNexus’ OD partnerships across the different regions, and directly manages PeaceNexus’ OD support to international
Héloïse Heyer
Héloïse leads the Conflict Sensitivity (CS) service offer, which aims to help international and local actors better take context into account when working in conflict and contribute to peacebuilding across
Kristyna Jostova
Kristyna is responsible for accounting at PeaceNexus. She supports the financial operations and provides management with financial reporting. Kristyna has previously worked in numerous assistant roles across a variety of
Anina Uhlig
Anina supports the West Africa Programme and works with selected partners on their Organisational Development, Conflict Sensitivity and Business Engagement processes. Before joining PeaceNexus, Anina worked for Terre des Hommes,
Maya Kasterine
As a trainee, Maya provides support to PeaceNexus’ West Africa Programme and External Communications team. Prior to working at PeaceNexus, she worked in the film industry as research and production
Daniela Bosnjak
Daniela works with international Business Engagement and Organisational Development partners. She also leads PeaceNexus’ external communications. Prior to joining PeaceNexus, Daniela supported strategic planning at the United Nations Office for
Central Asia Team
Chinara Esengul
Chinara manages the PeaceNexus portfolio in Central Asia and leads PeaceNexus’ Central Asia team. She has over ten years’ experience in researching and advising on Central Asian peace and security
Nazgul Aksarieva
As Senior Programme Officer, Nazgul supports selected partners in Central Asia in their Business Engagement processes. Nazgul has 12 years’ experience in project management. As a project manager for the
Kanatbek Abdiev
As Programme Officer, Kanatbek supports selected partners in Kyrgyzstan in their organisational development, conflict sensitivity and business engagement processes. Before joining PeaceNexus, Kanatbek was working, amongst others, at IFRC, OSCE,
South East Asia Team
Sai Won Latt
As Programme Officer, Sai supports and supervises PeaceNexus’ partnerships in South East Asia. Sai started to work as a Programme Officer for South East Asia in December 2019. Previously, Sai
Carol Sivpey Te
Carol manages PeaceNexus’ portfolio in Southeast Asia. She has more than 10 years of professional and academic experience in human rights and conflict sensitivity work. Before joining PeaceNexus, she provided
West Africa Team
Aliou Demba Kebe
As Programme Manager, Kebe oversees the PeaceNexus portfolio in Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal. Kebe has more than 20 years’ experience, including more than 15 coordinating development, conflict prevention and
Western Balkans Team
Deborah Reymond
As Programme Manager, Deborah supervises the PeaceNexus portfolio in the Western Balkans and leads the regional team there. Deborah has been accompanying PeaceNexus’ Western Balkans partners on their organisational development
Besart Lumi
Besart supports PeaceNexus’ partners on Organisational Development and Conflict Sensitivity. He is based in Prishtina, Kosovo. Besart is a researcher, human rights and transitional justice activist. He has extensive experience
Vladica Jovanović
Vladica supports PeaceNexus’ partners on Organisational Development in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia. She is based in Belgrade, Serbia. Vladica has been committed to creating and influencing positive change since early
Associate Consultants
Luc Lafrenière
Luc supports some of PeaceNexus’ multilateral and government partners as an Associate Consultant. Luc has been supporting PeaceNexus’ partnerships with the UN Peacebuilding Support Office and the government agency HACP
Frauke de Weijer
Frauke works with PeaceNexus partners and regional teams on organisational development and conflict sensitivity, in her capacity as an Associate Consultant. Frauke started working with PeaceNexus in 2013, supporting regional
Hesta Groenewald
As Associate Consultant, Hesta works on the Conflict Sensitivity service offer, with a particular focus on supporting international partners on conflict sensitivity integration and contributing to learning processes in this