Julia Stewart-David
DG ECHO Director B (Acting)
Biography
Acting Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Directorate, European Commission's Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Julia Stewart-David has worked on EU external relations and global issues for over twenty years. She is currently Acting Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Directorate and Head of Unit responsible for policy, cross-sectoral, institutional and Neighbourhood cooperation on the Union's Civil Protection Mechanism. Her previous roles included EU-US relations, Neighbourhood policy and over a decade of humanitarian system and disaster risk management representational and policy roles. Julia's wider professional interests include organisational learning, on which she focused her research efforts while on sabbatical as the 'EU fellow' at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Boston, USA) in 2015-16. She is also active in the EU's community of practice of 'Participatory Leadership’.
Organisation
European Commission
EU institutions
Speaker session
The opening ceremony of the European Humanitarian Forum aims to shed a light on the leadership and the contribution of the EU and its member states to humanitarian action. Keynote remarks will be delivered by Mr. Tomas Tobé (EU), Mr. Pekka Haavisto, Mr. Ikenna Azuike and Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger (ICRC). HR/VP Mr. Josep Borrell will moderate the pledging session and invite all present EU Foreign Ministers to the stage to announce humanitarian funding pledges and priorities.
14 Foreign Ministers confirmed: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden; 6 Deputy Foreign Ministers confirmed: Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania
Mirjana Spoljaric
President
Biography
Ms Mirjana Spoljaric is President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), commencing in October 2022. Ms Spoljaric most recently served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Earlier Ms Spoljaric served in several assignments in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern, and as Counsellor and Head of the Political Team at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York.
Organisation
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International organisation
Speaker session
The opening ceremony of the European Humanitarian Forum aims to shed a light on the leadership and the contribution of the EU and its member states to humanitarian action. Keynote remarks will be delivered by Mr. Tomas Tobé (EU), Mr. Pekka Haavisto, Mr. Ikenna Azuike and Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger (ICRC). HR/VP Mr. Josep Borrell will moderate the pledging session and invite all present EU Foreign Ministers to the stage to announce humanitarian funding pledges and priorities.
14 Foreign Ministers confirmed: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden; 6 Deputy Foreign Ministers confirmed: Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania
Kaan Cetinturk
Chief Information Officer / Director of Information Management and Technology
Organisation
UNRWA
International organisation
Speaker session
The opening ceremony of the European Humanitarian Forum aims to shed a light on the leadership and the contribution of the EU and its member states to humanitarian action. Keynote remarks will be delivered by Mr. Tomas Tobé (EU), Mr. Pekka Haavisto, Mr. Ikenna Azuike and Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger (ICRC). HR/VP Mr. Josep Borrell will moderate the pledging session and invite all present EU Foreign Ministers to the stage to announce humanitarian funding pledges and priorities.
14 Foreign Ministers confirmed: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden; 6 Deputy Foreign Ministers confirmed: Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania