Bruno Donat
Chief of Geneva Office @United Nations Mine Action Service
Roshni Mooneeram
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion @EMBL
Description
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the EU organised it’s second summit on anti-racism, which took place on the 21st of March. The EU has made a firm commitment to move from statements on anti-racism to productive actions, and is reviewing its existing anti-racism action plans and policies in order to bring equity and fairness to organisations and societies.
EMBL has invited Bruno Donat, Chief of UNMAS Geneva, for a conversation on approaches to creating more inclusive organisations. Bruno Donat was one of the first people to openly talk about racism in the United Nations, and to create initiatives to tackle racism within the UN. He will be in conversation with Roshni Mooneeram, Head of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office at EMBL, and the conversation will examine how international organisations such as the UN and EMBL can capitalise on their multi-national staff population and structures to move anti-racism and fairness forwards.
This event is intended to be an open conversation about how organisations currently tackle anti-racism, and what more they might do moving forwards. There will be a Q&A session at the end for audience questions.
Biographies
Speakers
Bruno Donat is the Chief of the Geneva Office of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS). Just before this posting, Mr. Donat was the Chief of the Section of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) working on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) – of armed groups – and Community Violence Reduction.
Recent postings include being Team Leader, Political Affairs at the United Nations Mission for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), the head of the stabilization unit in MONUSCO; working on DDR for the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations, both at Headquarters and in the field, and prior, with some eight years at the World Bank, the last years of which at the Fragile States, Conflict, and Social Development unit of the World Bank’s Africa Region. With more than 20 years in international affairs, Mr. Donat also brings experience from organizations such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Human Rights Watch.
A sample of missions and assignments include Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, and Ukraine.
He received training in Conflict Resolution and Applied International Studies from the Caux Scholars Program in Switzerland and also studied International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg, France. He was exposed as well to a military education through his participation as a cadet officer in the US Army R.O.T.C. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A., summa cum laude in Theology and a M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, USA.
Roshni Mooneeram is Head of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office at EMBL and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Prior to joining EMBL, she worked as a university academic for 10 years and then as a consultant in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, for 8 years, to global and regional organisations. These include the African Union (where she wrote the current 5 year Strategy for the Education of Girls and Women), Accenture, HSBC. With her colleagues at the University of Nottingham, she set up the Gender and Leadership Network in East Africa.
Date: 1 Apr 2022
Location: Virtual
Time: 15:00