Vote for Three Open Board Seats Ahead of the
2022 ACUNS Annual Meeting
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Dear ACUNS Members,
The ACUNS Board of Directors is pleased to submit for your consideration the following recommendations for three open Board seats for four-year terms of 2022-2026.
Following a general call, the Board received many strong nominations. Using evaluation criteria to ensure diversity and high standards, the ACUNS Nominations Committee and full Board of Directors unanimously recommend that Dr. Adriana Abdenur, Dr. Alice Atieno Odingo, and Dr. Inken von Borzyskowski be approved by the membership.
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Biographies for the nominees can be viewed below. Kindly vote by 12:00 CET (Geneva time), Saturday, 18 June 2021. To vote you must have an active membership and be logged into your account on the ACUNS website.
If you haven’t already, please register for the 2022 ACUNS Annual Meeting! We have an exciting program this year.
Thank you and best wishes,
Dr. Lise Howard
President, Academic Council on the United Nations System
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Dr. Adriana Abdenur
Dr. Adriana Abdenur is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Plataforma CIPÓ (a women-led policy institute based in Brazil); Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN); and Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po-Paris. She also serves as a Senior Policy Fellow at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research in New York focusing on global climate and forest governance. She earned her undergraduate degree with honors in East Asian Studies from Harvard University; an MA in International Education and Development from Columbia University; and PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. Dr. Abdenur is a member of many high-level committees and boards, including the UN Committee on Development Policy; the Global Climate Commission; the Climate and Security Expert Network; the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime; and the Strategic Advisory Board of the Weathering Risk initiative. Her work has focused on climate and security, environmental crime and deforestation, transnational organized crime, peace operations and peacebuilding in Latin America and the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Global South. Previously she served as Coordinator, International Peace & Security Division, of the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro; Assistant Professor of International Relations at Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro; Assistant Professor at Columbia University Teachers College in New York; and Assistant Professor at the New School University in New York. She is the author of dozens of articles and reports, and served as co-editor with Thomas Weiss of Emerging Powers and the UN (London: Routledge, 2015). She speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin.
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Dr. Alice Odingo
Dr. Alice Atieno Oluoko-Odingo is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Population and Environmental Studies at the University of Nairobi. She holds an Honors undergraduate Degree in Geography, and Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Agricultural Geography, from the University of Nairobi. She has published extensively on agricultural and food security, poverty and livelihoods, climate change, energy, gender and disaster risk reduction, ecosystem management, agro-biodiversity, health, cleaner production, and sustainability issues in such outlets as African Review; the International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM); the Journal of Sustainability, Environment and Peace; the Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology; the International Journal of Hydrology; African Journal of Sustainable Development; International Journal of Agriculture Innovation and Research (IJAIR); HEKIMA: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences; Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and elsewhere. She is one of the founding members of The Maasai Mara Science and Development initiative (MMSDI). She has held a variety of leadership and organizing positions at the University of Nairobi, the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, St. Augustine R.C. Secondary School, United Nations University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has worked with UNEP on sustainable consumption policies, and at the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre on gender integration and disaster risk reduction. Dr. Odingo previously served as Deputy Chairperson of the United Nations University and Partner Universities "Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Next Generation Researchers" programme, and as an elected Board member of the global Association of Women's Rights in Development. She is fluent in English and Kiswahili, and speaks some French.
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Dr. Inken von Borzyskowski
Dr. Inken von Borzyskowski is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the International Public Policy Program at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. She previously served as Assistant Professor at Florida State University (USA), Post-doctoral Fellow at Free University Berlin (Germany), and Pre-doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Italy). She earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. from Free University Berlin. She has worked at the Social Science Research Center (Berlin), and served as a fellow at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in Washington, D.C. She has won awards and funding from the U.S. Institute of Peace, the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the European Consortium for Political Research, the British Academy, and the Philip Leverhulme Trust. Dr. von Borzyskowski is the author of The Credibility Challenge: How Democracy Aid Influences Election Violence (Cornell University Press, 2019). Her research has appeared top outlets such as International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Organizations. She is an active member of the Swedish government’s Folke Bernadotte Academy, the German network on external democracy promotion (EDP), and the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN). She currently serves as the Co-Director of the ACUNS-UN 2022 Workshop in London.
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