Meet our External Contributors

Ms. Giulia Russo Wälti

​Giulia Russo Wälti is currently pursuing her Master in Public Management, with a previous Bachelor Diploma in International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

She worked as a multilateral diplomatic intern at the Permanent Mission of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the United Nations in Geneva and previously as an intern at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, Germany.

She has been passionate about international cooperation and development  for several years and has a keen interest on identifying solutions to solve increasingly transboundary challenges to the contemporary global order through an holistic and sustainable approach.
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Ms. Russo Wälti worked on field as project manager in collaboration with local NGOs in Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and Switzerland. Furthermore, she is fluent in French, English, Italian, German and Spanish.

Ms. Daniella Yuna

Daniella Yuna is a human rights and humanitarian professional currently working as a civil law paralegal in Manhattan, New York.

Yuna was born in Seoul, South Korea, with academic parents. She graduated degree with Magna Cum Laude from the Catholic University of America, major in International Politics and French.

She is set to enroll in a law school in autumn. In prior to this, she worked at the House of Commons, the United Kingdom, and the UN Human Rights Council Presidency in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr. Edoardo Gimigliano

Edoardo Gimigliano currently holds the position of Project Manager at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo (Italy), with the responsibility of designing and developing European and international funded projects on many different subjects. Among his actual specific working areas, certainly crucial are the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programs in peace-building operations, water scarcity and protection of water facilities in armed conflicts, and integration of migrant minors in the different educational national environments all over Europe.

Edoardo Gimigliano pursued his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations in Rome, at the Roma Tre University, while his master’s degree in international politics and diplomacy was achieved cum laude at the historical University of Padua (Italy).

At the end of his academic years, Mr. Gimigliano’s final thesis on “International trade in conventional arms between Eastern Europe and the Middle East” [Italian “Il commercio di armamenti convenzionali tra Europa orientale e Medio Oriente”] was published in Italian and made available for consultation online.

Dr. Mokshada Sharma

Mokshada Sharma holds a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery from Mumbai, India, and is currently attending the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During medical school, she was part of the student health advocacy as part of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) for five years. She was elected as the Regional Director of Asia Pacific and had, therefore, the opportunity to with national organizations in countries within the Asia Pacific Region. She focused on areas such as medical education, human resources for health, youth participation in legislative decisions, capacity building, primary healthcare, and an array of other Public Health areas.

After graduating from her bachelor, she volunteered in Uzbekistan and then worked for the World Federation for Medical Education in Geneva, Switzerland. She then decided to invest herself in the field of Public Health and policymaking. Ms. Sharma also holds a Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ms. Sharma is currently interested in Antimicrobial Resistance, Designing control programs for infectious diseases, improving the quality of medical education in the world, and gender equality.

In January 2021 she joined AKFA University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as a Medical School Professor where she teaches Gross Anatomy.

​Mr. Piotr Lubinski

Piotr Łubiński holds two PhDs from the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law and the Department of Law & Criminology of Aberystwyth University in Wales.
 
He participated in programs and courses from international institutions, such as the Hague NATO CIMIC Field Worker Course, the  International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy, the Hague Academy of International law Seminar in the Centre for Studies, and Research in International Law and International Relations as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross Warsaw.
 
Piotr Łubiński worked in academic institutions such as the Jagiellonian University Human Rights Centre at Aberystwyth University, and governmental institutions such as the Criminal Court in Krakow. He also served as a legal adviser to the Polish military forces in Afghanistan (two tours in 2008).
 
Mr. Łubiński lectures courses in International  Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Polish and English in various renowned institutions. 
 
He also serves as an expert at the Institute for Security and International Development SDirect24, a leading Polish think tank.
 
His research focuses on International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Rules of Engagement, as well as asymmetric and hybrid warfare. He authored numerous articles and co-authored several handbooks.​

Mr. Briand Kamguem

Briand Kamguem graduated from the Institute of International and Strategic Relations of Paris (IRIS SUP') and University of Bretagne Occidentale (UBO-Brest), respectively in Geopolitics and prospective, and in Public Administration and Diplomacy. He is currently preparing a Ph.D. in (Political Science / International Relations) on the issues of global governance for Africa.
 
He is the author of several articles on issues of peace and security in the world. Briand also militates for a reform of the UN Security Council that would give more seats and power to the African continent.
 
Briand Kamguem works as an Emergency and Recovery Program Analyst for the Canadian Red Cross. He previously held the same position with the American Red Cross. He has been involved in more than a dozen operations related to natural disasters (Tornadoes, Floods, and bushfires in Canada as well as Hurricanes and tropical storms in the United States of America).