Summit of the Future Debrief

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Speakers

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  Romeral Ortiz-Quintilla

  Programme Management Officer, Youth Engagement Partnerships, Advocacy & Communications Section·United Nations Youth Office

  Romeral Ortiz-Quintilla is a committed peacebuilding practitioner who is truly inspired by the role that youth play in conflict transformation and peace. She counts with more than 10 years’ experience in the field of Meaningful Youth Engagement and Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) where she has been largely contributing to the national and regional ownership and dissemination of the UN Security Council Resolution 2250. She has previous experience working with the UN, the EU and youth-led organisations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa and South-East Asia. Romeral is currently a consultant for different UN entities, in accelerating the implementation of Youth2030 and the YPS agenda.

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  Carole Osero-Ageng’o

  Global Initiatives Lead & Africa Regional Representative·HelpAge International

  Carole is a multilingual human rights lawyer and gender expert with an impressive history of impactful high-level advocacy in national, regional, and global spaces. She is the Global Initiatives Lead & Africa Regional Representative at HelpAge International and the Co- Chair of the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference in Support of the Summit of the Future. In her dual role at HelpAge International, Carole leads policy advocacy in strategic global and regional spaces for greater impact for older people in line with the HelpAge vision to for the rights, wellbeing and dignity of older people. Carole has previously worked as the Associate Regional Director Planned Parenthood Global and Senior Program Officer for Africa at the International Women’s Program of the Open Society Foundations. She was also the Program Officer for Africa at Equality Now, and before that a Legal Counsel at the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA Kenya). She started her career as a litigation and conveyancing lawyer in Kenya. Carole holds an LL. B (Hons), MA in International Conflict Management (MA-ICM) both of the University of Nairobi, Diplôme de Langue Française (Nairobi) and Diploma in the Equal Status and Human Rights of Women (University of Lund, Sweden).

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  Lynn Wagner

  Senior Director, Tracking Progress·International Institute for Sustainable Development

  Lynn M. Wagner is the Senior Director of the Tracking Progress program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). In this role, she oversees projects that seek to increase the accountability of decision making for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), enhance engagement in SDG implementation, develop SDG indicator and reporting tools, and support SDG implementation. Wagner began working with IISD in 1994 as a writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and she continues to observe and analyze multilateral environmental negotiations with IISD’s flagship publication. She also served as the Senior Manager of IISD Reporting Services’ Knowledge Management Projects from 2012-2016, and edited IISD Reporting Services' MEA Bulletin from 2006-2011. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and has taught environmental negotiation courses and led negotiation simulations at SAIS and the University of Nevada, Reno.

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  Philipp Schönrock

  Director·Cepei

  Is the director of Cepei, an independent think tank that works through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to scale up the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean within the global development agendas. In 2003 he founded Cepei and from there on he has been working closely with decision takers and those who influence them, by analyzing, promoting ideas, generating capacities and providing demand driven information about development processes throughout the region. Cepei´s work aims to increase regional dialogue and sharing of information, provide policy solutions and insights in critical strategic areas so as to optimize the engagement on: governance, finance and data for sustainable development. It has catalyzed and created multi-stakeholder dialogues around the sustainable development agenda by bringing together presidents, ministers, parliamentarians, statisticians, data scientist, development experts and practitioners to gather feedback and inputs from a regional perspective.

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  Wangu Mwangi

  Team Leader·Earth Negotiations Bulletin

  Wangu Mwangi has written for and led Earth Negotiations Bulletin reporting teams since 2008. Her areas of specialization include land governance, natural resources management, climate change adaptation, sustainable energy, and African development issues. Wangu has also written broadly on these themes for IISD’s SDG Knowledge Hub, with a focus on tracking progress under SDG 15 (Life on Land), SDG 1 (No Poverty), and SDG 2 (Zero Hunger). Wangu’s driving interest is supporting community-based organizations to harness and share knowledge, and to tell "stories of change" in compelling and effective ways. Drawing on monitoring and evaluation methodologies, she also supports development partners to better understand how transformative change happens in order to enhance their impact. Wangu has previously worked as a Communications Coordinator with a Dutch-based research institute of the United Nations University and as a Programmes Coordinator with EcoNews Africa, an African environmental advocacy and community media network. She holds a MA in Development Studies (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands), Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication (University of Canberra, Australia), and BA in Education (Kenyatta University, Kenya).