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.
Yvette Issar Programme Assistant for Peace and Disarmament
Yvette joined QUNO in September 2007, having graduated with honors from
Earlham College, a Quaker school in Richmond, Indiana. She majored in
International Studies supplementing the degree with minors in German
Language and Politics. As a student at Earlham, she was involved with
various aspects of college governance as well as its Peace and Global
Studies Program, and has also helped to organise a well-respected annual
Model United Nations Conference for high schoolers in the US-Midwest. With
origins in Kenya and India, she has a keen interest in languages, ranging
from Russian, Hindi and Czech (which she dabbles in) to Swahili, French and
German (more confident dabbling). Among the things she enjoys are running,
reading and music. She plays the guitar, drums and tabla (North Indian
percussion instrument), has studied Indian vocal music and is currently
pursuing an interest in Renaissance polyphony as she engages with her work
on QUNO's Peace and Disarmament Programme.
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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.
Siobhan McNamara Programme Assistant for
Human Rights and Refugees
BA in Law, University of Cambridge. Whilst completing her degree Siobhan volunteered once a week for the Children’s Legal Centre (CLC), a charity providing legal advice to solicitors working with asylum-seeking children. At the CLC Siobhan was responsible for researching legislation in response to client queries, as well as working with other NGO representatives to lobby for legislative change. One of her main projects whilst working for the CLC was to produce a detailed analysis of the proposed UK Borders Bill, highlighting the potential implications for refugee and asylum-seeking children.
With a longstanding love of children, Siobhan has taught English to primary school children in Honduras, ballet to toddlers in Leicester and last year helped run a playgroup for a local refuge centre. In her spare time Siobhan enjoys travelling and following graduation she spent the summer exploring Vietnam and Laos with her brother, a region she hopes to revisit in the future.
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Eva Tanner Finance Officer
 B.S. in Business Administration and Psychology. M.S. in Transportation Planning and Engineering. Eva joined QUNO in September 1999, originally as Development Officer, where her duties covered communication, fundraising, and outreach. She is now the QUNO Finance Officer, and without her work there would be no QUNO projects. She works on budgeting and proposals, tracks grants, and controls the accounts and funding. Her previous work included transportation and land use planning, traffic safety and evacuation planning for nuclear power plants. More recently, she was an accountant and conference coordinator at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta.
Helen McEvoy Administrative Assistant
 Helen joined QUNO in January 1999, and is responsible for the administration of the office. She has coordinated seminars and is Secretary to the QUNO Committee. She liaises with the Foundation regarding the upkeep of Quaker House and its accounts, as well as controlling the meeting room bookings for Geneva Meeting, organizing lunches and evening receptions, making travel arrangements for the representatives as required, and many other essential day-to-day tasks. Before joining QUNO she worked in Liberia on a hospital-building programme, liaising between the Ministry of Health, the Japanese embassy, and the Japanese architects responsible for the project.
Lessie Dore Consultant on Global Economic Issues
 Lessie holds a Ph.D in Law, LL.M in International Trade Law, and BA in International Relations. She joined QUNO in December 2007 as a Consultant for the Global Economic Issues Programme. Previously, she was Assistant Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the WTO and other International Organisations in Geneva, and covered trade negotiations. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow for International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty, and provided legal advice to the African Group at the WTO on trade-related issues. She enjoys photography, Middle Eastern and African literature, painting and travelling.
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