Leadership Council

Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein
of Jordan
Patroness and Chair

CATHERINE ASHTON, BARONESS OF UPHOLLAND, GCMG, PC
Joint Vice-Chair
Life Peer and former Leader of the UK House of Lords; former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; and former First Vice President of the European Commission

SIR LAURIE BRISTOW, KCMG
Joint Vice-Chair
President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge; COP26 Regional Ambassador to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia; former Director of National Security and Director of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office; former UK Ambassador to Afghanistan, Russia and Azerbaijan

DOUG CHALMERS, CB, DSO, OBE
Joint Vice-Chair
Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and former Director of Operations, UK Ministry of Defence

MARC WELLER
Director and Convenor
Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge

JUDE BROWNE
Member
Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge; and Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

WILLIAM URY
Member
Professor of Law, Harvard University; Co-founder, Harvard Program on Negotiation; Senior Fellow, Harvard Negotiation Project

JAMAL BENOMAR
Member
Former UN Special Adviser for Yemen and former UN Under-Secretary-General for Conflict Prevention

TERESITA QUINTOS-DELES
Member
Former Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process for the Philippine Government, former Member of the UN Standby Mediation Team, and Chairperson of INCITEGov

ROBERT SERRY
Member
Chairman, University for Peace, European Centre; former Netherlands Ambassador to Ukraine; former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process; and former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Crisis Management and Operations

MALIK DAHLAN
Member
Emeritus Professor of International Law and Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London; and a former UN Constitutional Expert

BRIAN GANSON
Member
Professor and Head of the Centre on Conflict & Collaboration, Stellenbosch Business School; Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

KEVIN JON HELLER
Member
Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen; and Professor of Law, Australian National University
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