Geneva Staff
David Atwood Director & Representative for Disarmament & Peace
 Ph.D. Political Science, University of North Carolina in 1982. He has been the Peace and Disarmament Representative at the Quaker UN Office since 1995. On completing his degree, he taught political science at the University of North Carolina and at Earlham College in the USA. From 1978 to 1988, he was Tutor in Peace Studies at Woodbrooke College in Birmingham, UK where he lectured and organised the short course programme. In 1988, he became General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, headquartered in the Netherlands where, as chief executive officer, his duties included policy development, staff management and direction of the Fellowship programme on non-violence education and training.
Adam Drury Programme Assistant for Disarmament & Peace
Adam Drury joined QUNO in September 2008, having just finished a Masters Degree in Violence, Conflict and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has done a variety of volunteer work over the years, including helping at a refugee centre in London, working for a small NGO in Ghana and teaching
English in an Ecuadorian village. Since attending a Quaker school – Bootham in York – Adam has had a deep interest in peace work, ranging from the anti-Iraq war movement he co-founded at his school through to his Master’s thesis on the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2008, and now to his work with David Atwood on QUNO’s Disarmament and Peace Programme. Adam also enjoys travel and photography, both of which he looks forward to pursuing from Geneva.
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Rachel Brett Representative for Human Rights and Refugees
 LLB, LLM in International Human Rights Law with Distinction. She has been the Human Rights representative at the Quaker UN Office since 1993. She is the author of numerous publications – chapters in books, articles etc on human rights, the role of non-governmental organisations, child soldiers, etc as well as co-author of the books, Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight and Children: the Invisible Soldiers. She is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex, and previously taught law and international human rights law there as well as initiating and acting as principal researcher for the Essex Project on the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (then 'The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe'). She worked at the Quaker UN Offices in both Geneva and New York in the 1970s.
Jenny Rosenberg Programme Assistant for
Human Rights and Refugees
Jenny Rosenberg is currently working with Rachel Brett on the QUNO Human
Rights and Refugees programme . Jenny graduated from Warwick University
with a degree in Comparative American Studies in 2005. Before University,
Jenny spent six months in Latin America undertaking voluntary work in a care
home for girls in Peru before spending some time travelling in the region.
Jenny was able to further research her interest in Latin and Central America
during her degree, and also spent her third year studying in Mexico and
carrying out her dissertation on the Huichol indigenous community there.
After University, Jenny spent a year in Spain teaching English, before
returning to Brighton where she worked at the University's volunteering
scheme. This essentially involved liaising between students who were
interested in volunteering in the local community and local NGOs who were
interested in volunteers and setting up placements to fulfil both needs.
This was a great introduction to the various NGO schemes that are in place
to help people at a local level community and Jenny hopes to further her
knowledge and contribute to the work of NGOs and aid organisations on a more
international scale during her time at QUNO.
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Eva Tanner Finance Officer
 B.S. in Business Administration and Psychology. M.S. in Transportation Planning and Engineering. Eva joined QUNO in September 1999, originally as Development Officer, where her duties covered communication, fundraising, and outreach. She is now the QUNO Finance Officer, and without her work there would be no QUNO projects. She works on budgeting and proposals, tracks grants, and controls the accounts and funding. Her previous work included transportation and land use planning, traffic safety and evacuation planning for nuclear power plants. More recently, she was an accountant and conference coordinator at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta.
Helen McEvoy Administrative Assistant
 Helen joined QUNO in January 1999, and is responsible for the administration of the office. She has coordinated seminars and is Secretary to the QUNO Committee. She liaises with the Foundation regarding the upkeep of Quaker House and its accounts, as well as controlling the meeting room bookings for Geneva Meeting, organizing lunches and evening receptions, making travel arrangements for the representatives as required, and many other essential day-to-day tasks. Before joining QUNO she worked in Liberia on a hospital-building programme, liaising between the Ministry of Health, the Japanese embassy, and the Japanese architects responsible for the project.
Lessie Dore Consultant on Global Economic Issues
 Lessie holds a Ph.D in Law, LL.M in International Trade Law, and BA in International Relations. She joined QUNO in December 2007 as a Consultant for the Global Economic Issues Programme. Previously, she was Assistant Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the WTO and other International Organisations in Geneva, and covered trade negotiations. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow for International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty, and provided legal advice to the African Group at the WTO on trade-related issues. She enjoys photography, Middle Eastern and African literature, painting and travelling.
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