Dr. Lam Akol is currently a member of the National Liberation Council of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement / Army (SPLM/A). He has held various posts within the Movement (1986-1991), SPLM-Nasir (1991-1993) and SPLM-United (1993-2003), and also served as Minister of Transport (1998-2002).
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Ilyas Akhmadov was appointed Foreign Minister of Chechnya in 1999. He is currently a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC.
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President Martti Ahtisaari was President of Finland from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 he founded the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), which he chairs. He is currently Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the future status process for Kosovo.
Ahmed Abbas Ahmed was a member of the drafting committee of the Charter of North East Somalia (1991) and Fifth Congress of Somali Salvation Front (1992). He was Resource Person for the drafting committee of the transitional Charter of Puntland and consultant for Independent Federal Constitution Commission of Somalia. He was a member of the original WSP Somali program team in 1996 and is currently Interpeace Program Officer on the Democratisation Program of Puntland.
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Maxamed Daahir Afrax is a writer and literary scholar based in UK. He is the founder president of the Somali-speaking Writers Centre of International PEN and the founder-editor of HALABUUR, Journal of Somali Literature and Culture.
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Thomas Abraham is the UK and Ireland correspondent of The Hindu. He has reported on the Irish conflict as well as Sri Lanka and the Balkans for the last ten years.
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Mareike Schomerus is a fellow at the London School of Economics' Development Studies Institute (DESTIN). She works on violent conflict, peacebuilding and human security and has written extensively on war and peace in Uganda and Sudan. Prior to and during the Juba talks, she conducted fieldwork with the Lord’s Resistance Army. Her research also includes the impact of Uganda’s conflict on Sudanese civilians.
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Betty Acan Ogwaro is currently Eastern Equatoria's State Minister for Agriculture in Southern Sudan. During the Juba talks, she was the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly member for Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State and a member of the Peace Secretariat, the administrative headquarters of the Juba negotiations.
