14 February 2024 – The United Nations Department of Global Communications today announced the selection of Carole Osero-Ageng’o, Global Initiatives Lead and Africa Regional Representative at HelpAge International, and Nudhara Yusuf, Executive Coordinator for Global Governance Innovation Network at The Stimson Center, as Co-Chairs of the 2024 United Nations Civil Society Conference in Support of the Summit of the Future. The conference will take place on 9 and 10 May 2024, at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya…
Nudhara Yusuf is Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network at the Stimson Center and serves as Coordinator of the Global Futures Forum and Youth Coordinator at the Coalition for the UN We Need.
Prior to this, Ms. Yusuf worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Integration Team and the UNDP Regional Bureau for the Asia-Pacific’s Strategic Foresight Unit. Previously, she worked on Education and Training with the World Federation of United Nations Associations and supported the British Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in the United Kingdom’s Parliament. Ms. Yusuf is the founder and trustee of several grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations across India, the United Kingdom and globally. She also has extensive experience building multistakeholder communities of practice, networks, and movements — including towards the UN Summit of the Future. Her research and action primarily focus on governance of and with future generations, the role of globalization, emerging technologies, and development in the shifting multilateral architecture, and engaging youth and civil society in governance and multilateral institutions.
In addition to her role at Stimson and at Coalition for the UN We Need, Ms. Yusuf also serves as Research Associate with the Global Governance, Justice and Security Programme, is a fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and was formerly a fellow with UN University’s Centre for Policy Research to support the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board for Effective Multilateralism. She is a Dean’s List graduate from University College London.
Read the full press release from the UN here.
