International IDEA is delighted to welcome the new Board Members to the Institute and looks forward to working closely with them in the coming years. Starting on 1 January 2021, International IDEA’s Board of Advisers will include:
Mariska van Beijnum from the Netherlands is an internationally experienced expert in the peacebuilding domain and current Director for the Conflict Research Unit in Clingendael Institute. Ms van Beijnum has previously chaired the Board of Advisers of the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
Professor Eva Maria Belser from Switzerland holds a Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Fribourg and a UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Democracy. Professor Belser is the Co-Director of the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg.
Prof John Agard calls for quicker action on cutting carbon emissions
Thursday 10 December 2020
In this 2017 fil photo, the effects of an oil spill can be seen along the shore in Chaguaramas. TT’s climate manoeuvrability is awkward because the economy is based on fossil fuels but as a small island developing state (SIDS) the country is uniquely susceptible to the ravages of climate change. - FILE PHOTO: ANGELO MARCELLE
When he was younger, John Agard’s parents wanted him to be something practical – like a doctor. Instead – long before it was cool – he felt a visceral pull towards studying the environment. “Even as a boy my parents told me do medicine. But I was very passionate about environmental issues. I had opportunities to go to the UK and do all kinds of other things but I said no, it was really the environment I was passionate about,” he told Business Day recently.