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.
Tom Richardson Programme Assistant for Disarmament & Peace
Tom studied Conflict Resolution in the University of Bradford's Peace
Studies department; he has a keen interest in the UN, writing his
dissertation on the challenges and prospects of UN Peacebuilding in the
wake of September 11th. In the past Tom has volunteered as a teaching
assistant for rural communities in Thailand and for a community
peace-building project in Bradford. Since Graduating Tom has worked in
Cambodia on an education development project and a land rights protection
program. More recently Tom worked in Sri Lanka for a community
peace-building NGO and as a free-lance journalist during the culmination of
the country's civil war. He hopes that working at QUNO Geneva will allow
him to further his interest in the cyclical effects of under-development
and armed violence. He is also interested in the morality of the immediate
use of modern weapons systems within the context of International
Humanitarian Law, notably thermobaric explosives and DIME weapons.
Otherwise Tom is an avid photographer, cook and skier - though he has not
yet worked out how to combine all three skills at once.
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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.
Holly Mason-White Programme Assistant for
Human Rights and Refugees
Holly completed a double degree in Law and Political Science in 2007 at the
University of Tasmania, Australia. During her university degree Holly also
worked for 5 years at an organisation that supervised court-ordered access
visits with children and separated parents. After completing her studies
Holly worked for a consultancy company that specialised in the management of
overseas development projects in Asia and the Pacific. Holly attended The
Friends' School in Hobart, Tasmania, and was fortunate enough to also attend
the QUNO Summer Program in New York in 2002. Holly pursued her interest in
human rights through university, including playing a role in establishing an
international human rights law student society. Holly is looking forward to
further developing her understanding of the United Nations, international
human rights law and the international development arena through her year
with QUNO.
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Caroline Dommen Representative for
Global Economic
Issues
Caroline
brings long experience in both
international trade and
development policy and
environmental policy to this
position. She comes to QUNO
from the NGO 3D => Trade -
Human Rights - Equitable
Economy, where she was founder
and director. Caroline holds a
Masters Degree in Law and
Development from London
University, and is also a member of
several professional bodies
including the International
Advisory Network of the Business
& Human Rights Resource Centre,
the IUCN-World Conservation
Union Commission on
Environmental Law, and the
Sustainable Development
Committee of the International
Law Association. Caroline will
be tasked with developing and
shaping this programme in line
with the changing global economic
and environmental circumstances.
Sylviane Trousseau Office Manager
 Sylviane Trousseau joined QUNO in August 2009, with responsibility for office administration. Amongst her many essential day-to-day tasks, she coordinates upkeep of Quaker House and its accounts, manages meeting room bookings, organizes lunches and evening receptions, makes travel arrangements, and organizes seminars. Sylviane holds a degree in law from Lausanne University. Before joining QUNO she worked in different industrial companies as assistant to the management and brings her experience as multi task collaborator.
René Lejeune Finance Officer
 René studied at the International School of Geneva before starting his career in international banking in Geneva and Johannesburg. He has worked as management consultant for an American company, as a coffee and cocoa trader in Africa and Madagascar, and in administration and finance with international companies in Geneva. He completed his studies as Swiss specialist in finance and accounting in 2006 and is now member of the Board of a dozen SMEs. He also works as a consultant in finance, human resources, fiscal issues and organization with both small and large companies.
René joined QUNO Geneva as Finance Officer (on a part-time basis) in June 2008.
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