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Meet the Fellows

From every corner of the globe, spanning Japan to Nigeria, Germany to Canada, Argentina to Fiji, Fellows contribute their expertise in deliberation and participation to our frameworks. Missions Publiques has forged a global community of trusted, high-level practitioners. Get to know them today!

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Faheem Hussain

Interdisciplinary researcher specializing in information and communication technologies, global development, human displacement and public policy.

Nadia Al-Sakkaf

The network

Africa23

Cameroon

Edith Christian Ngoubè Ngoubè

Chad

Abdeljalil Bachar Bong

Nigeria

Ezenwa Okoro

Sierra Leone

Edward Williams

Nigeria

Rita Okoro

Mali

Bakary Kouyate

Liberia

Abraham Kalilu

Tanzania

Mayness Chapote

Kenya

Rapudo Hawi

South Africa

Miya Baratang

Morocco

Mouna Saihi

Uganda

Emmanuel Oruk

Malawi

Joyce Murerwa

Egypt

Noha Ashraf

Rwanda

Isaac MUGABE HATANGIMANA

Uganda

Arthur Penny Oyako

Algeria

Yasmine Ould Mammar

Ivory coast

Salyou Fanny

Congo

Franck Kamunga

Ghana

Raymond Selorm Mamattah

Zimbabwe

Jasper Maposa

Benin

Yao Amevi Sossou

Burkina Faso

Karim Sagnon

America7

United States

Mahmud Farooque

United States

Faheem Hussain

Brazil

Raquel Gatto

Nicaragua

Cristina Morales Angulo

Bolivia

Zambrana Roberto

Haiti

Leon Lovensky

Argentina

Valeria Lisciani

Asia17

Libanon

Zeina Bouharb

Pakistan

Umar Khan

Indonesia

Juliana Harsianti

China

Ming Zhuang

Iraq

Soma Ferman

India

Raashi Saxena

Inde

Sonakshi Saluja

Singapore

Natalie Pang

Pakistan

Haseeb Ullah

Israel

Ronen Goffer

Russia

Andrey Shcherbovich

Vietnam

Dieu Anh Le Hoang

Nepal

Summita Udas Shakya

Turkey

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Kashmir

Rayees Ahmad Ganie

Yemen

Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Bangladesh

Shah Zahidur Rahman

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Ireland

Stephen McCarthy

Norway

Anne Igeltjørn

Switzerland

Claire Somerville

Romania

Alexandra Peca

Switzerland

Carolina Earle

Latvia

Iveta Kazoka

Russia

Andrey Shcherbovich

Turkey

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Serbia

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic

Slovenia

Simon Delakorda

England

Roxana Radu

Greece

Apostolos Altiparmakis

Roumania

Radu Gheorghiu

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Alvin Prasad

Fiji

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Cameroon

Edith Christian Ngoubè Ngoubè

Director of Projects and Programs of the Observatory of Politics in Africa (OPA)

Chad

Abdeljalil Bachar Bong

Founder and President of House of Africa and co-founder and Executive Secretary of the Internet Governance Forum in Chad (IGF Chad).

Nigeria

Ezenwa Okoro

Program Director of Street Project Foundation, a youth focused not-for-profit organization that uses creative arts to drive youth engagement, social mobilization and cross-cultural dialogue. Street Project Foundation won the Intercultural Innovation Award hosted by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group.

Sierra Leone

Edward Williams

University lecturer, treasurer at Internet Society Sierra Leone, Edward also works with the local government in raising awareness in rural communities to incite them to engage in participatory activities.

Nigeria

Rita Okoro

Co-Director of Street Project Foundation, a youth focused not-for-profit organization that uses creative arts to drive youth engagement, social mobilization and cross-cultural dialogue. Street Project Foundation won the Intercultural Innovation Award hosted by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group.

Mali

Bakary Kouyate

President of Internet Society Mali. His goal is to bridge the digital divide in his country so that all Malians have affordable, equitable and secure Internet access.

Liberia

Abraham Kalilu

Abraham is a youth leader providing social services in Liberia where he serves as chapter president of the Liberia Youth Parliament for Water and occupies a voluntary role as Program officer for the Youth Dream for Constructive Achievement (YDCA LIBERIA).

Tanzania

Mayness Chapote

Entrepreneur and officer at Universal Care for Africa, Mayness is passionate about "building healthy decision-making processes and healthy people through community participation".

Kenya

Rapudo Hawi

Executive director of Kijiji Yeetu, a non-profit focus on Gender, Peace, Security, and Climate change, as well as fostering multi-stakeholder dialogue, digital and communities of practice.

South Africa

Miya Baratang

Founder, CEO and mentor at Girlhype Coders, where she teaches girls and women to code and encourages them to consider careers in Information, Communication, Technology (ICT), and STEM.

Morocco

Mouna Saihi

Founder and Director of PublicPart, a Moroccan agency specialized in concertation in territorial development. She provides strategic and technical advice, as well as training, to stakeholders in the public sector. She also focuses on promoting participation, facilitates the implementation of participatory mechanisms in Morocco and works on impact of territorial planning.

Uganda

Emmanuel Oruk

Emmanuel coordinates at Trident Youth Engagement Uganda to address the digital divide and promote climate action through ICT in Uganda. As the secretary at Internet Society, he trains human rights advocates. Additionally, he serves as the Africa ambassador for the Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Agency, advocating for inclusive data protection rights and raising awareness about AI.

Malawi

Joyce Murerwa

Joyce currently works with Amref Health Africa as Global Technical Lead responsible for policy dialogues between countries and stakeholders to accelerate equity in health. She works to advance policy and governance priorities, while holding various positions within the United Nations and NGOs.

Egypt

Noha Ashraf

Noha, co-founder of Digital Grassroots, advocates for digital citizenship, internet governance, digital sustainability, and empowering women in tech. Proficient in AI, Cloud, and the Metaverse, she secured the first place in the ILPF Hackathon on the Metaverse. As an Arabic-speaking facilitator for the Pan-African Youth Ambassadors for Internet Governance program, supported by PRIDA, Noha continues to inspire.

Rwanda

Isaac MUGABE HATANGIMANA

Founder and Executive Director Integrated Development Action Rwanda (IDA Rwanda) which aims to promote the development of the living standards of vulnerable people and minorities in rural communities. He advocates for the rights of female survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuses in rural areas and empowers them to raise their voice during the decision-making process at local level.

Uganda

Arthur Penny Oyako

Arthur is a journalist working for Anti-Corruption Coalition in Uganda with the sole objective of providing a forum through which various anti-corruption actors can enhance their capabilities and act as one strong voice and force that can effectively engage the government on issues of corruption.

Algeria

Yasmine Ould Mammar

Project manager at Grdr Migration-Citizenship-Development.

Ivory coast

Salyou Fanny

While working with the department of digital economy of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Cote d’Ivoire, he endeavored to implement the digital strategy of Cote d’Ivoire.He later on joined as a telecommunication regional project manager, the Secretariat of Internet High speed under the Authority of Cote d’Ivoire Prime Minister, where he coached over a hundred projects.

Congo

Franck Kamunga

Franck Kamunga is a Stanford Fellow on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, Oxford Fellow on International Humanitarian Law. Human Rights Lawyer, Franck is the Executive Director of Droits Humains Sans Frontières, one of the Leading National NGOs, working for Human Rights, Justice and Rule of Law in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ghana

Raymond Selorm Mamattah

Raymond is the Founder and President of the E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA), a civil society in Accra Ghana. He leads his team to organize the annual Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) fellowship.

Zimbabwe

Jasper Maposa

Jasper is the Director for Community Voices Zimbabwe, a non-profit making organization working towards as amplifying muted voices in developmental and democratic processes in Zimbabwe by promoting, defending and fulfilling the ma-terial realization of access to information, freedom of expression and enjoyment of digital rights

Benin

Yao Amevi Sossou

Yao is a computer science and entrepreneurship youth advocate leader who is passionate about democratizing the Internet across his homeland in Western Africa. Yao has been a national partner on We, the Internet in Benin and in Burkina Faso in 2020 and in 2022.

Burkina Faso

Karim Sagnon

Karim is a certified telecommunications teacher in Ouagadougou, internet governance trainer and coordinator of youth network for education and awareness of social media.

United States

Mahmud Farooque

Mahmud Farooque is the Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), a Clinical As-sociate Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS), and a Senior Global Futures Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL) at the Arizona State University. His work focuses on making science more useful and democratic.

United States

Faheem Hussain

Interdisciplinary researcher specializing in information and communication technologies, global development, human displacement and public policy. Faheem's current research projects include analyzing the impact and innovation of digital communication platforms and online education strategy and digital ecosystem development.

Brazil

Raquel Gatto

Dr. Raquel Gatto is Regional Policy Advisor at Internet Society. She is also a lawyer focused on Intellectual Property, Domain Names, Privacy and Internet Governance issues. She holds a PhD in Law focused on Legitimacy of Global Regulation for Internet Governance, at the Law School PUC, Sao Paulo.

Nicaragua

Cristina Morales Angulo

Cristina is Founder and Director of Tu Tramite Express which carries out legal formalities for Nicaraguans living abroad. She is also a professional facilitator.

Bolivia

Zambrana Roberto

Roberto is the Bolivian Internet Governance Forum Coordinator, and UN Multistakeholder Advisory Group Member.

Haiti

Leon Lovensky

Social data analyst with experience in managing and building data engineering solutions, efficient in designing complex solutions and dynamic custom intelligence tools suitable for business intelligence.

Argentina

Valeria Lisciani

Valeria Lisciani is a project team coordinator at Democracia en Red, specializing in civic participation, civic technologies, innovation, public policy management, and data science. Since March 2022, she teaches at the Public Policy Laboratory and also coordinates the research group on artificial intelligence and policies at the University of Buenos Aires.

Libanon

Zeina Bouharb

Zeina is the Head of International Cooperation at OGERO Telecom, the incumbent operator in Lebanon. On Internet Governance, Zeina was appointed by the UN General Secretary as Multistakeholder Advisory Group member where she served for 3 years, representing the Public sector in Lebanon and the Arab Region

Pakistan

Umar Khan

Umar is a law graduate & now a practising lawyer who is working for human rights & promotion of digital rights in his community. Umar is also committed to working for youth rights, girls’ education and peacebuilding.

Indonesia

Juliana Harsianti

A journalist and researcher who works at the intersection of technology and the impact on society, with a gender focus and marginalized communities. Active in internet governance fora – regional and global, now serving as Secretary General for Indonesia Internet Governance Forum

China

Ming Zhuang

Ming is the founder of the Participation Center in China, and a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since early 2000, he has introduced participatory budgeting in China, and has been engaged in PB policy research and development, capacity building, tool development, to promote and facilitate PB practices in the field.

Iraq

Soma Ferman

CEO of Realty Avenue, Architect, Humanitarian Aid worker, Realtor, Project manager, and an Entrepreneur

India

Raashi Saxena

Technologist and social impact innovator. Recognized by World Economic Forum among Six Inspirational Young Female Leaders, Raashi is a Global Shaper as part of a network of Hubs and is one of the 300 leaders of the 2020 Women Deliver Young Leaders Program.

Inde

Sonakshi Saluja

Sonakshi has over 8 years of experience in the field of climate change, environment and public policy. She has worked with many organisations to develop research and policy initiatives, particularly across India and Europe, in the areas of sustainable and renewable energy, air pollution, WASH, education, gender etc.

Singapore

Natalie Pang

Natalie is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Communications and New Media Department, as well as Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community. Her teaching and research focuses on digital citizenship, digital well-being and digital humanities.

Pakistan

Haseeb Ullah

Haseeb Ullah, a doctor of Pharmacy by profession, a social activist, human rights activist by passion. Currently working as Program Manager, First Aid & Pre-Hospital Emergency Care at Pakistan Red Crescent Society, supported by International Committee of the Red Cross.

Israel

Ronen Goffer

Ph.D, is an entrepreneur, researcher and practitioner of deliberative democracy, democratization and civic society. Ronen was a founder and director of KOL-Active: Israeli Center for Engaging Citizens in Governance and the Division for Participatory Democracy. Currently advices to participatory processes at governmental agencies, local authorities and organizations.

Russia

Andrey Shcherbovich

Andrey Dr. Shcherbovich has been a lecturer, then associate professor at the Department of the Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law Faculty of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia). In September 2013, he completed his Ph.D. degree with a thesis entitled “Constitutional Guarantees of the freedom of speech and right to access the information on the Internet”.

Vietnam

Dieu Anh Le Hoang

Dieu Anh has five years of direct experience with development initiatives that assist underserved communities via an empowerment and multi-stakeholder approach to assure their well-being and digital capabilities

Nepal

Summita Udas Shakya

Summita is a passionate, innovative, solution-focused public and community engagement practitioner. Currently working as a public and community engagement officer at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal (OUCRUNP)

Turkey

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Begüm is President of Anka Youth Team Germany, an initiative of Anka Youth Association promoting local development of young people in Stuttgart region of Germany in entrepreneurship, leadership, technology and sustainable development goals.

Kashmir

Rayees Ahmad Ganie

Rayees is a journalist and peacemaker. He has been involved with several humanitarian organisations, initiatives, community mobilising, monitoring and evaluation, field research, capacity building, and interfaith dialogue as well as planning and implementing community-based projects with women and children in India.

Yemen

Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf is Yemen’s first female Information Minister and publisher of the Yemen Times. She is an award winning advocate for press freedoms, and gender equality and an international researcher with special interests in media, digital safety and internet freedoms, democratic transitions, gender, development and climate change.

Bangladesh

Shah Zahidur Rahman

Shah is an active MSG (Multistakeholder Steering Group) member of Asia Pacific regional Internet governance Forum (APrIGF) and The Executive committee member of Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG). He has worked with the UN and IGF ai-iot and big data and emerging technologies expert working groups.

Ireland

Stephen McCarthy

Dr. Stephen McCarthy is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Business Information Systems, University College Cork. Stephen's research centres on three areas: (citizen participation in the governance of IT, (the design of human-centred IT, and 'dark sides' of technology use.

Norway

Anne Igeltjørn

Anne is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the CEO of Inclusive Creation. She has been recognized by the UN as a leading innovator in Universal Design of ICT.

Switzerland

Claire Somerville

Claire Somerville is a Medical Anthropologist working at the intersection of gender and global health. Claire's research includes work on digitalization as well has primary care health studies. Claire lectures in Gender, Global Health and Gendered Bodies as well as applied research in gender, race and diversities. She is currently executive director of the Gender Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute .

Romania

Alexandra Peca

Alexandra PECA is a youth worker and international facilitator with a formal education background in International Relations, European Studies, and Diplomacy. She has been working as a project manager for more than 4 years, focusing on the topics of youth participation, civic education, youth work, digital education, human rights.

Switzerland

Carolina Earle

Carolina is currently a Research Assistant working at the IHEID's Gender Centre on the EU Horizon 2020 funded EQUALS-EU project, which seeks to promote gender equity, and digital inclusion. In her role, amongst other activities, Carolina recently led the co-design and coordination of an EQUALS-EU Innovation Camp on “Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy

Latvia

Iveta Kazoka

PROVIDUS’ director and senior policy analyst in the areas of good governance and citizen participation. Her expertise is regularly requested by parliamentary committees and working groups of the Latvian government when they are elaborating new policies, for instance, regulation of political parties or citizen participation in decision-making.

Russia

Andrey Shcherbovich

Turkey

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Serbia

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic

Désirée is an Internet public servant, and was a special advisor to the chair of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group. Additionally, she is Senior Public Policy and International Affairs Advisor in Europe for Afilias, the domain name registry.

Slovenia

Simon Delakorda

Simon is an executive director at the Institute for Electronic Participation NGO in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The NGO is the first in Slovenia to be oriented on digital democracy research & development and information society policy advocacy.

England

Roxana Radu

Lecturer in Technology and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a Re-search Associate at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the governance of digital technologies and internet-related policymaking.

Greece

Apostolos Altiparmakis

Apostolos is from Athens and holds a MSc in International Security, specializing in Energy, Migration and European Policies at Science Po Paris. He coordinates the EU project "ABSolEU" which paves the way to ans Access to Genetic Resources recycling revolution in the EU.

Roumania

Radu Gheorghiu

Radu is president of Institutul de Prospectiva and has devised a horizon scanning mechanism which combines human evaluators and machine learning, and developed the consultation method Dynamic Argumentative Delphi. Both tools have been extensively used in large scale foresight exercises in Romania and at European level.

Fiji

Alvin Prasad

Alvin Prasad is a lecturer of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Fiji. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology.

Fiji

Shireen Nisha

Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Fiji and currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy. Research interests include areas of image processing, data science and machine learning.