Adam Lupel, Executive Director
Adam Lupel, before joining C4UN, was the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute (IPI), 2016-2025. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. Between 2014 and 2016 he was the director of research for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism. In 2015, he also led IPI’s support to the General Assembly-mandated “Lessons Learned Exercise” on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
He is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma, and the Co-Editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (with James Cockayne), and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (with Ernesto Verdeja).
Prior to 2006, when he joined IPI as Editor, he was the Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and he taught modern and contemporary political theory at The New School’s Eugene Lang College in New York. He has a PhD in political theory and an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University.
Mathilde Boddaert, Geneva Policy and Advocacy Coordinator
Mathilde Boddaert has over 18 years of experience across the UN and Non-Governmental Organizations, holding leadership, policy, research, capacity-building, and management roles.
Before joining C4UN, she spent five years at WHO headquarters in the Humanitarian Policy and Inter-Agency Coordination Unit, leading the Global Health and Peace Initiative (GHPI) across programming, strategy, and intergovernmental governance levels.
Between 2011 and 2020, Mathilde lived and worked in various conflict and post-conflict countries, addressing a range of peacebuilding issues – including transitional justice, violence prevention, and conflict management – as well as refugee, gender, and development issues. She led Interpeace’s Country Program in Ivory Coast for three years and headed RCN Justice & Démocratie’s Country Office in Burundi. As an independent consultant, she supported the organizational development of local Civil Society Organizations in Rwanda and produced field-based research and reports for organizations including the International Crisis Group (ICG), the World Food Programme (WFP), and Impunity Watch.
Earlier in her career, Mathilde engaged in capacity-building and research on peace and security issues at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), where she worked for four years.
Eliane El Haber
Eliane El Haber is a Program Coordinator at the Coalition for the UN We Need, where she works on global governance and multilateral reform initiatives, including the Global Futures Forum and the Pact for the Future monitoring process. Her work focuses on convening diverse stakeholders, coordinating international dialogues, and supporting research and advocacy on inclusive global governance.
Prior to her current role, she served as a Research Associate at the Coalition, leading the development of the Pact for the Future Monitoring Report and contributing to the Information Clearinghouse Bulletin. She has represented the Coalition in several multilateral spaces, including the High Level Political Forum, the UN Civil Society Conference, the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), and the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.
Eliane brings over a decade of experience across civil society and intergovernmental spaces in education, youth engagement, and governance. She has been actively involved in the SDG4 Youth and Student Network, where she previously served as an elected Executive Committee Member representing the Arab States. She holds an academic background in education, psychology, and management, and her work centers on inclusive education, youth participation in governance, and multilateral cooperation.
Ishaan Shah
Ishaan Shah is C4UN’s Lead Analyst on the Implementation of the Pact for the Future. He brings several years of technical expertise in supporting intergovernmental and normative processes, closely engaging in deliberations across the UN system. His work includes a focus on intergenerational leadership and civil society engagement.
Jebilson Raja Joslin
A systems thinker, centrist and realist determined to improve global governance with the UN at its centre. With an academic background in Public Policy and Electrical Engineering, Jebilson has over 5 years of cross-sectoral work experience spanning the UN system, INGOs and the private sector. His areas of specialisation include UN reform, intergovernmental processes and migration as well as data analysis and partnerships.
Jeffery Huffines
Laeek Ahemad Siddiqui
Dr. Laeek Ahemad Siddiqui is a population scientist and researcher with over five years of experience in academic research on education, gender, and health-related policy issues. His work uses rigorous empirical analysis and large-scale datasets to study social inequalities and development outcomes. Dr. Siddiqui is deeply committed to promoting education among youth and advocates for expanding access to higher education through evidence-based research and policy engagement. He also has a strong interest in global development frameworks and closely follows United Nations initiatives related to youth and gender equality. In particular, he closely monitors the activities and initiatives of international policy forums and advocacy platforms such as UNESCO and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Through his research and advocacy, Dr. Siddiqui aims to contribute to informed policy debates and promote inclusive development for young people and marginalized communities.
Monique Cuillerier
Monique Cuillerier has developed her passion for information sharing and communications over many years spent working and volunteering for a wide-range of organizations from the local to the international.
She is most concerned with building strong foundations for a better, more inclusive future for all, whether those foundations are in the form of multilateral organizations or local groups dedicated to community-based access to food.
Additionally, as a consultant, Monique implements online solutions for collaboration and information sharing, including logistical and technical support for online events, from small roundtable consultations to multiday events.
Rory Mondshein
Rory Mondshein is a communications strategist and civil society advocate dedicated to strengthening global governance and expanding meaningful participation in the United Nations system. With more than a decade of experience across government, international organizations, journalism, academia, and nonprofit advocacy, she works to connect grassroots perspectives with multilateral policymaking and advance inclusive global dialogue.
Her engagement with the UN system includes past roles with the World Federation of United Nations Associations through WFUNA International Model United Nations (WIMUN) and WFUNA Youth Camp Korea, as well as the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service where she supported communications for the first live-streamed Secretary-General Candidates Debate. In 2021, Rory helped negotiate, draft, and present a consensus-driven communiqué to world leaders as a United States delegate to the G20 Youth Summit.
As a Communications and Outreach Associate at the Coalition for the UN We Need, Rory has led communications and engagement initiatives that mobilize civil society participation in UN processes and global governance reform. Over the past 6 years, Rory’s work has supported more than 150 international events, contributed to civil society engagement at the UN Civil Society Conference in Nairobi, and helped organize UN75 consultations with youth from over 70 countries.
in addition to her work with C4UN, Rory serves as a Next Gen Fellow at Foreign Policy for America and Co-Chair of the United Nations Association of the USA’s Women’s Podcast and YouTube Committee.
Rosario Diaz Garavito
Fergus Watt, Coordinator Emeritus