WEBER Scott
Director-General, Interpeace
Session: Sustainability - Sustaining Education in Critical Circumstances, Conflict Zones, and Poverty
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- 11.00-12.30
Scott Weber is the Director-General of Interpeace, an international peacebuilding organization and strategic partner of the United Nations.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and chaired for the last 9 years by 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President Martti Ahtisaari, Interpeace has a global team of over 300 peacebuilders in Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, and Timor-Leste. Interpeace is also developing a programme in Haiti and exploring work in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2009, Scott was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, an honour bestowed by WEF each year to recognize "the two hundred most distinguished young leaders below the age of 40 from around the world". Interpeace’s work was personally highlighted by H.E. President Bill Clinton at the 2006 and 2007 Clinton Global Initiative meetings as an innovative approach to conflict prevention.
Scott began his career in the United Nations, first with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and then as a Political Officer in the Office of the Director-General of the UN in Geneva. Scott is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), The Chatham House (UK), and the Steering Committee of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Economics and Russian from Georgetown University. Scott is French and American and lives in France with his wife and two children.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and chaired for the last 9 years by 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President Martti Ahtisaari, Interpeace has a global team of over 300 peacebuilders in Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, and Timor-Leste. Interpeace is also developing a programme in Haiti and exploring work in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2009, Scott was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, an honour bestowed by WEF each year to recognize "the two hundred most distinguished young leaders below the age of 40 from around the world". Interpeace’s work was personally highlighted by H.E. President Bill Clinton at the 2006 and 2007 Clinton Global Initiative meetings as an innovative approach to conflict prevention.
Scott began his career in the United Nations, first with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and then as a Political Officer in the Office of the Director-General of the UN in Geneva. Scott is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), The Chatham House (UK), and the Steering Committee of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Economics and Russian from Georgetown University. Scott is French and American and lives in France with his wife and two children.
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