Hratch Tchilingirian is Associate Director of Eurasia Research Programme in the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Saw David Taw heads the foreign affairs departments of both the Karen National Union and National Democratic Front. He is also a member of the National Council of the Union of Burma Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Winifred Tate has researched and written about human rights and peace issues in Colombia for the past 15 years, including three years as a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. An anthropologist trained at New York University, she is completing her dissertation on the history of Colombian human rights activism.
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Robert Tapi served in the North Solomons Provincial Government and was Special Duties Officer for the Peace Process and Political Negotiations from 1998-2001.
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A former member of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), James Tanis served as Secretary to BIG President Francis Ona and BIG Vice President Joseph Kabui. He is Co-Vice President of the Bougainville People’s Congress since 1999.
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General Lazaro Sumbeiywo served as Kenya’s Special Envoy to the IGAD-led Sudanese peace process (1997-98) and then as mediator (2001-05). From 2000 he served as Chief of Staff of the Kenyan army before retiring in February 2003 and devoting himself full-time to completing the peace process.
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Chris Spies is the director of Dynamic Stability CC, a conflict transformation and development practice, and a senior associate of the Centre for Conflict Resolution. He was the Regional organiser of the Western Cape Regional Peace Committee.
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Peter Sohia was a radio broadcaster with the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea from 1973-1984, before he entered politics as the Provincial Government Member for Buka Passage. He is presently Bougainville's Peace Coordinator and the Administration’s Representative on the UN Peace Process Consultative Committee.
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Steven A. Smith is a consultant specialising in conflict resolution and links between conflict and natural resources. He has been an NGO coordinator in Rwandan refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, country director for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives in Rwanda, and senior advocate for Refugees International covering humanitarian crises in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Scott S. Smith is a Political Affairs Officer in the Asia and Pacific Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs. He served as the Political adviser to the United Nations in Bougainville between February and December 2000, and chaired the technical negotiations between the two parties from June to December 2000.
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