International Fund
for Peace
Board of Trustees
The visionaries and experts driving IF4Peace forward.
Robert J. Berg
Founding Chair and CEO
Bob brings decades of leadership experience in international development and institutional reforms.
Sheldon Himelfarb
Secretary
Sheldon is Chair and Co-founder of the International Panel on the Information Environment and the founder and former CEO of PeaceTech Lab
Lord Desmond Browne
Board Member
Lord Browne served as UK Defence Secretary under the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown administrations
Prof Luis Gabriel Franceschi
Treasurer
Prof Franceschi is the immediate former Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Board Member
Nobel Laureate Ellen served as the the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
Global Advisors
These leaders provide strategic guidance to IF4Peace.
Andrew Salmon
Barbara Turner
Catherine (Kate) Fearon
Former Commandant General Royal Marines and Director Force Generation and Readiness, NATO
Former high-level USAID official
Director, OSCE Conflict Prevention Center; Deputy Head, OSCE Secretariat
Dylan Matthews
Jack Sim
Johan Vibe
CEO, PeaceDirect; recent Chair, Civicus (the world’s largest association of civil society organizations)
Social and economic entrepreneur, Singapore
Director, Norwegian Center for Conflict Resolution; former Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Lord John Alderice
Judy McCallam
Karim Haggag
A leading theorist on human behavior and peace
Executive Director, Life and Peace Institute, Uppsala
Director, Swedish International Peace Research Institute; former senior diplomat, Egypt
Maho Nakayama
Director/Senior Program Officer, Peacebuilding Program, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo
Per Heggenes
Former CEO, The IKEA Foundation
Margot Bokanga
Chief of Staff, Ministry of Justice, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ravi Vekatesan
Chair, Global Alliance for People and the Planet; former Chair, Baroda Bank
Moritz Ehrmann
Head of Division, Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, Austria
Sonali Kulkarni
Former executive in robotics; great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi
Steve Killelea
Philanthropist and Founder, The Institute for Economics and Peace. Member of the Order of Australia, 2010
Sylvie Issa Malouf
Programs Manager, Policy Hub, Qatar Foundation