Patrons

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Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan leads the Foundation Board for the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. He was the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations (1997-2006). In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served for twenty-one years as a member of parliament, including as Canada's Foreign Minister from 1995 to 2000. At the end of this term, Canada launched ICISS. He also worked to advance the human security concept, in particular, the global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines.

Credit: canadacouncil.ca

Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire is a senior fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, at Concordia University. He served as the force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda (UNAMIR). He is author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.

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Jan Eliasson
Jan Eliasson is the former president of the United Nations General Assembly and served as foreign minister of Sweden (2006), state secretary for foreign affairs (1994-2000), and Sweden’s ambassador to the United Nations. He is formerly the secretary-general’s special envoy for Darfur.

Credit: Carnegie Corporation

David Hamburg
David Hamburg served as the eleventh president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (1982-1997). Hamburg was a founder and co-chair of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, and the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government.

Credit: U. of Indian

Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. He served in the House of Representatives for 34 years, and served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group and vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission. He was a member of ICISS.

Credit: UNDP

Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Prince Hassan, brother of the late King Hussein, served as Crown Prince of Jordan from 1965-1999. He is president of the Club of Rome, chair of the Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues, and member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group. He served as co-chair of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (1983-1987).

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Sadako Ogata
Sadako Ogata is president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and was UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2000). She was chairman of the Executive Board of UNICEF, and minister plenipotentiary at the Japanese Permanent Mission. From 1982 to 1985 she represented Japan on the UN Commission on Human Rights. She was co-chair of the Commission on Human Security (2002-3).

Credit: RPDEV

Fidel Valdez Ramos
Fidel V. Ramos was president of the Philippines (1992-1998). Previously, he served as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and later as Secretary of National Defense in the administration of President Corazon Aquino. He is the founder and chairman of The Ramos Peace and Development Foundation.

Credit: Realizing Rights

Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson is the founder and chair of Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, and member of The Elders. She is the former president of Ireland (1990-1997) and served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002).

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Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu is a founder, along with Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel, of The Elders. He served as chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1984.

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