*Previous Lab participants have come from:

Spain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, Georgia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Sudan, South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, Haiti, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Turkey, and all over the U.S.

** UN presenters have included:

  • Kathleen Abdalla, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Dr. Richard Alderslade, World Health Organization/Senior External Relations Officer, Health Policy
  • Prateek Awasthi, UN Population Fund
  • Mandeep Bains, Senior Policy Advisor/UN Millennium Campaign
  • Bernhard Barth, UN-Habitat,  Japan
  • Nazim Benchikh, Youth Program Fellow, United Nations Population Fund
  • Vivian Bernstein, UN Academic Impact
  • Suzanne Bilello, UN Education, Science and Culture Organization
  • Jo Bourne, UNICEF Education
  • Marcia Brewster, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development Division
  • Margaret Carrington, UN FAO, World Food Programme
  • Florence Chenowith, UN Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Daren Cheatham, UN Office of Secretary General
  • Albert Cho, UN Development Programme
  • Elisabeth Clemens, UN Development Programme
  • Elena Crete, Project Manager, America’s Zero Carbon Action Plan, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
  • Ramu Damodaran, Chief, Civil Society Section, United Nations Department of Public Information
  • Francesca De Ferrari, UN Human
    Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
  • Ilaria DiMatteo/ Chief, Energy Statistics Section/DESA
  • Yamina Djacta, UN-Habitat/Deputy Director
  • Arunabha Ghosh, UN Human Development Report, UN Development Programme
  • Shamina de Gonzaga, Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly
  • Maria Godunova, DESA/Sustainable Development Officer
  • Angel Gomez, UN-Habitat/NY Office
  • Donna Goodman, Program Advisor/Water, Environment and Sanitation Section, UNICEF
  • Ellen Gustafson, UN FAO, World Food Program
  • Patrick Haverman, Project Manager Millennium Village, Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme
  • Patrick Hayford, Director, Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, UN Development Programme
  • Liz Hallett, UN World Food Programme
  • Thiago Hérick de Sá, World Health Organization, Geneva
  • Stephanie Hodge, UNICEF
  • Bashir Jama, Millennium Villages Project, United Nations Development Programme
  • Tarik Jasarevic, WHO
  • Saba Kalam, National Programme Manager, UN Development Programme, India
  • Kefilwe Koogotsitse, Youth Program Fellow, United Nations Population Fund
  • Karoly Kovacs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Environment, Energy and Industrial Statistics
  • Jakob Krupka, UN-Habitat
  • Jorge Laguna-Celis, UN Environment Program (UNEP)
  • Julie Larsen, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Program on Youth
  • Jennifer Longo, UN, Visitor’s Services
  • Bettina Luescher, Spokesperson, World Food Programme
  • Changu Mannathoko, UNICEF, Education Section
  • Cecilia Martínez, UN-Habitat, NY Office/Director
  • David McCreery,UNAI
  • Mathew Mcilvenna, UN World Food Programme
  • Hannah Messenger, Global Strategist,UN SDG Action Campaign
  • Pragati Pascale, UNDP
  • Giorgia Passarelli, Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights
  • Gonzalo Pizarro, Policy Specialist on Water Resources, United Nations Development Programme
  • Daniel Platz, DESA
  • Stephanie Rambler, DESA/Sustainable Development Officer
  • Arturo Requesens, Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Division for Social Policy and Development
  • Mary Roodkowsky, Special Advisor for United Nations Affairs, UNICEF
  • Renata Rubian, UNDP Bureau of Development Policy/Policy Specialist, Poverty Practice
    Nouhoum Sangarey, OHCHR
  • Guido Schmidt-Taub, Associate Director UN Millennium, Project/The Millennium Village
  • Vanessa Tobin, United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Nouhoum Sangarey, OHCHR
  • Cynthia Scharf, UNOSG
  • Broddi Sigurdarson, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Jim Sniffen, Programme Officer, UN Environment Programme
  • Friedrich Soltau, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Leonardo Souza, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Emma Torres, VP of the Americas & Head of New York Office, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
  • Dorine Van Der Wal, World Health Organization, Geneva
  • Sergio Vieira, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Social Perspective Development Branch
  • Lucy Wanjiru/UNDP Gender Team
  • Carol Welch, U.S. Coordinator, Millennium Development Goals Campaign/ UN Development Programme
  • Gregory Woodsworth, UN Development Programme
  • Bill Yotive, UN Department of Public Information