URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Udenrigsudvalget 2021-22
URU Alm.del Bilag 278
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September 2022

The future of

aid in a world

on fire

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Rasmus

Nordqvist

Rasmus Nordqvist is a member of the Danish

Parliament for the Green Left/SF. Nordqvist is the

spokesperson on international development and

Nordic cooperation as well as climate, agriculture,

and green entrepreneurship. Also, among others

he is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee

and substitute in the Foreign Policy Committee.

He is a member of the executive committee of

the European Greens.

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URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Katarina

Ammitzbøll

Katarina Ammitzbøll has been a member of the

Danish parliament since 2019 for the Conservative

People’s Party and has been a member of the Gen-

tofte Municipal Council. She is the spokesperson

on human rights and development cooperation,

and a member of the Climate, Energy and Utilities

Committee, and the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ammitzbøll has experience in strategy and sustai-

nability, diplomacy, and development program.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Lidegaard

Bo Lidegaard is a Danish historian, dr. phil.,

and co-founder and partner at Kaya Research.

Lidegaard has worked as a top civil servant in

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Danish

government and is a former editor-in-chief of the

newspaper Politiken. He has published several

best-selling books. For his writing, Lidegaard has

received Danish as well as international awards

and prizes.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Wai Wai

Wai Wai Nu is the founder and Executive Director of

the Women Peace Network in Myanmar, the founder

of Yangon Youth Center and the co-founder of

Justice for Women in Yangon. She is a former politi-

cal prisoner. Nu has been recognized as a Champion

of Prevention by the UN Office of the Prevention

of Genocide and Responsibility to Protect and has

received numerous prices including the Hillary Rod-

ham Clinton award in 2018. Nu was named a Young

Global Leader by World Economic Forum, a Next

Generation Leader by Time Magazine, and Women of

the Year in Financial Times.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Avner

Gvaryahu

Avner Gvaryahu was born in the Israeli city of

Rehovot. During his army service, he served in

the special forces of the paratrooper’s brigade,

where he attained the rank of staff sergeant. A

year after he was discharged, he joined Breaking

the Silence as a researcher and tour guide with

a focus on working with world Jewry and later

became director of the Public Outreach. Since

August 2017, he is the organization’s Executive

Director. Gvaryahu holds a B.A. in Social Work

from Tel Aviv University and an M.A from the

Institute for the Study of Human Rights at

Columbia University.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Morten

Kjærum

Morten Kjærum has been the Director of the

Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and

Humanitarian Law in Sweden since 2015. Previ-

ously he directed the EU Agency for Fundamental

Rights and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

He is a member of the UN board of Trustees of

the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation

in the Field of Human Rights and the UN Human

Rights fund for Technical Assistance. In 2013 he

was rewarded an honorary professorship at the

University of Aalborg, Denmark.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Brian

J. Dooley

Brian J. Dooley is a human rights activist and author.

He is a Senior Advisor for the United Nations

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights

defenders, and Senior Advisor at the Washington

DC-based NGO Human Rights First. He is also a

Visiting Scholar at University College, London (UCL).

He has served for 8 years as an advisory board

member of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and

was a Visiting Scholar at Fordham University Law

School in New York. In 2022, The Oxford Middle

East Review profiled Dooley on four decades of

activism and his approach to human rights work.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Hindou

Oumarou Ibrahim

Hindou Omarou Ibrahim is a Chadian environmental

activist and geographer, expert in adaptation and

mitigation of indigenous people in relation to

traditional knowledge and climate change. She is

the founder and coordinator of the Association of

Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad, a

community-based organization focusing on promo-

ting the rights of girls and women, and advocates for

leadership and environmental protection. Omarou

Ibrahim has served as the Co-Director of the pavilion

of the World Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative at COP21,

COP22, and COP23.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Henrik

Vinther Olesen

Henrik Vinther Olesen is the Group Vice President

for Communication, CSR, and Public Affairs at

Salling Group, Denmark. Vinther Olesen is a former

journalist of many years, education director at the

newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and former member of

the Danish Parliament for the Social Liberal Party.

Vinther Olesen is also a board member of Ligeværd,

a political organization that works to make a

difference for children, youth, and adults with

special needs.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Birgitte

Qvist-Sørensen

Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen has been the General

Secretary of DanChurchAid since 2014. She has an

extensive executive management experience in

international development, humanitarian assistance,

and conflict resolution, and is a board member of

the Council for Development Policy, Danish Ministry

of Foreign Affairs, member of the Danish Think Tank

One/Third on Global Food Waste. She is a former

Country Director for Save the Children, worked with

UNIFEM with responsibility for women’s projects in

Southeast Asia, and is a former Director of Social

and Health Services in Elsinore municipality.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Michael

Omaria

Michael Omaria is an Ugandan priest and the pro-

ject manager and coordinator for DanChurchAid’s

partner organization SOCADIDO (Soroti Catholic

Diocese Integrated Development Organization). In

cooperation SOCADIDO and DanChurchAid work

to strengthen economic, environmental, and social

conditions for Ugandan smallholder farmers and

their families to create sustainable and climate-

resistant societies.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Hanna Line

Jakobsen

Hanna Line Jakobsen is the Senior Vice President,

Social & Humanitarian, at the Novo Nordisk

Foundation. She is a former Director of Business

Development at UNICEF Denmark, Manager of

Social Donations national and international at the

Obel Family Foundation, and a Senior Consultant

in the Education Department at DJØF. Jakobsen is

a board member of the Investment Fund for

Developing Countries and has been appointed by

the Minister of Innovation to the board of the

Social Investment Fund.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Sofie Junge

Pedersen

Sofie Junge Pedersen is a Danish footballer who

plays as a midfielder for the Danish national team

and Juventus, Italy. She has previously played for

IK Skovbakken and Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish

Elite division, and for FC Rosengård in Sweden.

She is a DanChurchAid-ambassador for WE PLAY

GREEN and uses her position to promote climate

action amongst football teams and players.

Conference speakers

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 278: Invitation til konferencen "Fremtidens nødhjælp i en verden i brand" den 9. september 2022

Flemming Møller

Mortensen

Flemming Møller Mortensen is the Danish

Minister for Development Cooperation. He has

been a member of the Danish Parliament for the

Social Democratic Party since 2007.

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