Abstract

Interested in learning more about the inner workings of the UN? Come and listen to a panel of former UN staff members share their experiences. There will also be an opportunity to have a chat and a glass of  wine afterwards.

Panelists

Stephanie La Hoz Theuer – A climate policy expert with over 10 years of experience in the regulation and implementation of market instruments for climate change. After five years in the private sector and another five at the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, her current focus is policy research on economic and financial instruments for climate change mitigation and adaptation. She holds a Production Engineering degree from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), and is currently part of the MPhil programme in Environmental Policy at Cambridge University.

Victoria Stewart-Jolley – PhD candidate, POLIS - former UNV , UNDP, Indonesia (planning officer), special assistant to the SRSG , DPA, Iraq, and UNDP Elect consultant, Albania, Solomon Islands and 2014 Afghan recount.

Chair

Dr Devon Curtis, University Lecturer, POLIS . Formerly employed at UN Staff College.

For those hoping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’, especially amidst a broad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can be loosely collected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Social Justice’, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanitarian Aid,’ the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic training, the kind provided by Cambridge University, is important but certainly not enough to prepare students for the transition into working in this sector. Through a mixture of substantive discussion, personal reflection and practical advice, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together high‐level experts working in these fields and creates a forum in which students and researchers can listen and ask questions about what this work actually involves, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas and challenges faced, and probe the skill set and experience needed to forge a career in these fields.

More about the CGHR Practitioner series: http://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/practitioner_series