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Marsha Henry

Marsha Henry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of EconomicsÌýandÌýPolitical Science. Marsha’s research interests focus on critical militaryÌýandÌýpeacekeeping studies; the political economy of sexual violence in post-conflict settings;ÌýandÌýintersectional feminist theoriesÌýandÌýmethodologies.

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Nahla Valji

Nahla Valji is the Senior Adviser to the Executive Director, UN Women. She served most recently as the Senior Adviser, Gender in the United Nations’ Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) where she was responsible for leading gender policy priorities for the Office and drafting and supporting the implementation of the Secretary-General’s Gender Parity Strategy among other efforts. She is also the Global Coordinator of the Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls, a 500m euro global partnership with the European Union and SG flagship programme in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Prior to this, she served as the Acting Chief/ Deputy Chief of the Peace and Security section in UN Women’s headquarters in New York, where she led for some years the organization’s work on peacekeeping, peace negotiations, transitional justice, and rule of law, involving both global programming and policy work, particularly with regards to the Security Council. In 2015, she headed the Secretariat for the Global Study on implementation of resolution 1325, a comprehensive study requested by the Security Council for the 15-year review of women, peace and security. She founded and was managing editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Gender and Conflict. Prior to joining the UN, Nahla worked in South Africa, where she led the regional transitional justice work of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and managed the African Transitional Justice Research Network.

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Tanni Mukhopadhyay

Dr. Tanni Mukhopadhyay has over 20 years of experience in development policy analyses and development programming.Ìý Her technical expertise is in areas of Sustainable Human Development, Gender Equality, Democratic Governance and Social Protection, and her doctoral research focused on human capabilities, women’s empowerment and informal sector employment. She is presently an independent international development consultant, and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

Working with the United Nations from 2001-2019, Dr. Mukhopadhyay has co-authored several global UN reports, including UNDP’s Human Development Reports (HDRS) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, on thematic issues affecting human capabilities and wellbeing, ranging from democracy, cultural diversity, work, vulnerabilities, social protection, universalism, unpaid care and demographic transitions.Ìý She has also worked on other global and regional UN publications, including the 2022 and 2003 Reports on Human Security, the 2006 Report on the Status of Governance in Least Developed Countries, and several Regional HDRs for Asia and the Pacific on sensitive cross-border topics like trade, corruption and gender equality.

In 2006, Dr. Mukhopadhyay worked as Governance Officer in Kabul for the Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction Pillar of the UN’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.Ìý From 2007 – 2012, she worked with UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific implementing the UN reform agenda, and as the Country Programme Manager, supporting UNDP Country Offices in Cambodia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Mongolia.Ìý In 2013, she was the lead coordinator for country consultations in Asia and the Pacific for the Post-2015 agenda. From 2007-2014, Dr Mukhopadhyay served on the Steering Committees of various UN Trust Funds for Democracy, Electoral Assistance, Gender and Poverty.Ìý Ìý

Earlier in her career, Dr. Mukhopadhyay worked at the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics working for Professor Amartya Sen and Dr Emma Rothschild, and as a Researcher at the Department of Psychiatry on issues of social exclusion, mental health and criminal offending.Ìý She also worked as a consultant on Gender Responsive Budgets for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and contributed to the OECD-DAC Working Group on Public Expenditure Management.Ìý

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Kerry Buck

Kerry Buck was most recently Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Board, Economic Sector, from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, she was Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO from 2015 to 2018. Ms. Buck is a career diplomat who served as Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs, Assistant Deputy Minister for Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb. Earlier in her career she was posted to the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Ms. Buck was chair of government Task Forces for Afghanistan, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Mali and other foreign policy crises, and led Canadian government responses to major natural disasters (Haiti quake, Nepal, Philippines, etc.). She represented Canada on international negotiation of Women, Peace and Security issues from 1992 to 2018, helping build international law and practice on gender-based violence. Throughout her diplomatic career, she represented Canada at the G7, UN, NATO, OSCE and OAS on issues of security, peace support operations, human rights, disarmament, terrorism and humanitarian affairs.

Ms. Buck also served in the Privy Council Office, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the International Development Research Centre and the Constitutional Law Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of Ontario.Ìý