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Céline Nahory
Biography
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Céline Nahory (Senior Advisor) worked on the GPF staff as Security Council Program Coordinator and Internship Coordinator from 2001 to 2007 and remains involved as a Senior Advisor since she moved to Tokyo . She studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva , where she specialized in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Fluent in English and French, she has had close to seven years of intensive experience with the UN Security Council and the NGO-Council dialogue process. During that time, she has organized and participated in more than 300 meetings of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council with ambassadors, high UN officials and foreign ministers. She has also assisted NGOs and diplomatic delegations in information exchange and dialogue.
She has worked on a number of GPF research projects and helped to organize several GPF conferences and special advocacy meetings on issues such as Iraq and Natural Resources and Conflict. GPF published her essays “The Hidden Veto” (2004) about the influence of veto threats on the work of the Security Council, and “Towards a Democratic Reform of the UN Security Council” (2005), co-authored with James A. Paul. She was one of the main authors of “War and Occupation in Iraq” (2007), a major report prepared by Global Policy Forum and co-sponsored by 30 NGOs worldwide.
