VCDNP Senior Fellow Angela Kane has been a member of the Council of the United Nations University (UNU), the governing board of UNU, since 2016. As of the most recent session of the Council, which welcomed six new members, Ms. Kane serves as the Council's Chair, taking responsibility for the work of the group, as well as its impact on UNU.
Members of the Council are chosen by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay "with an eye to achieving a geographic and gender balance, with due regard to major academic, scientific, educational, and cultural trends as well as each member’s field(s) of expertise."
UNU itself is a think tank and post-graduate institution headquartered in Japan, but with 14 institutions in 12 countries worldwide.
Newly appointed members of the UNU Council include:
- Dr. Denisa Čiderová (Slovakia), Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies, University of Economics in Bratislava;
- Dr. Comfort Ero (United Kingdom), Program Director, Crisis Group;
- Dr. Xin Fang (China), President & Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;
- Professor Adam Habib (South Africa), Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Witwatersrand;
- Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin (United Kingdom & Nigeria), Vice-President/Vice-Principal International & Professor of Security, Leadership and Development, King’s College London;
- Professor Brenda Yeoh (Singapore), Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
They join standing members:
- Professor Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Brazil), Scientific Director, São Paulo Research Foundation & Professor, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, State University of Campinas;
- Ms. Isabel Guerrero Pulgar (Chile), Director, IMAGO Global Grassroots, & lecturer at Harvard and MIT;
- Dr. Angela Kane (Germany), UNU Council Chair; Senior Fellow, Vienna Centre for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, & Professor, Sciences Po, Paris;
- Dr. Segenet Kelemu (Ethiopia), Director General and CEO, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology;
- Dr. Radha Kumar (India), Policy Analyst;
- Professor Tsuneo Nishida (Japan), Honorary Director, Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University.