IPB Board, Council and Staff Members

Monaeka Flores has been elected as a board member in 2025. Monaeka is the Executive Director and a founding member of PrutehiGuåhan (formerly Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian) and afounding member and core organizer of the collective Mariånas for Palestine. Prutehi Guåhan is a community-based direct-action group in Guam, an “unincorporated territory” and military colony of … Continue reading "Monaeka Flores – Board Member"...

Youngah Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025. Youngah Lee works at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) as Manager of the Center for Peace and Disarmament and is also working at the secretariat of the Korea Peace Action Campaign. She has worked on peace, disarmament, international conflict and human … Continue reading "Youngah Lee – Board Member"...

Quique Sánchez Ochoa was elected as an IPB board member in 2025. Quique holds a bachelor in Political Science and a master’s degree in International Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. His career, activism and research are dedicated to peacebuilding and social and environmental justice. He works as a project manager at Centre Delàs of Peace … Continue reading "Quique Sánchez Ochoa – Board Member"...

Reiner Braun was a board member of IPB from 2006 to 2013, then Co-President until 2019 and subsequently Executive Director from 2019 to 2022. Following a break from 2022 to 2025, he was elected a board member in 2025 for the upcoming term (2025-2028). Reiner studied German literature, history and journalism. He was actively involved … Continue reading "Reiner Braun – Board Member"...

Francis Daehon Lee has been elected as a board member of IPB in 2025. Francis Daehoon Lee has been a professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University, Ritsumeikan University and the International University of Japan.  He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission in 2005 and worked with the Center for … Continue reading "Francis Daehon Lee – Board Member"...

Francesco Vignarca has been elected as a board member in 2025. Francesco has been working in the field of peace and disarmament for over twenty years and has been the Coordinator of the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network Campaigns since 2020. He was previously the National Coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network (2004-2020). He works … Continue reading "Francesco Vignarca – Board Member"...

Anuradha Chenoy is a former collaborator of IPB and has been elected as a board member in 2025. Anuradha is an academic committed to peace. She is a writer who seeks to unravel geopolitics and show peace-related alternatives. Anuradha is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University in … Continue reading "Anuradha Chenoy – Board Member"...

Binalakshmi Nepram is the current Vice President of IPB and a former Board member. She is a Harvard University Fellow at the Asia Centre as well as a writer, humanitarian and civil rights activist spearheading work on making women-led peace, security and disarmament a movement and an issue that is meaningful to people’s lives...

Dragana Zivancevic is currently Vice-President of IPB and a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Inc. (IPAN). IPAN represents over 50 organisational and 200 individual members. It is a national body comprised of peace organisations, faith organisations, trade unions and environmental and anti-nuclear groups...

Owen Tudor is IPB’s current Vice-President. He is also the Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, which brings together 70 million workers in 46 Commonwealth countries and a member of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UK and the international board of CHRI. He was Deputy General Secretary of the International … Continue reading "Owen Tudor – Vice President"...

Joseph Gerson is the co-president of International Peace Bureau and President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. His books include With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World...

Sharon Dolev was elected as a board member in 2025 and is a former IPB council member (2022-2025). She is a peace and human rights activist with a focus on eradicating nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East through innovative policy, education, advocacy and activism. She is the founder and director … Continue reading "Sharon Dolev – Board Member"...

Corazon Valdez Fabros, is currently the Co-President of International Peace Bureau (ipb.org) and a core member of thematic circle on Peace and Security at Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (aepf.info). She is a member of the Steering Committee of Dismantle Military Industrial Complex Network (www.dismantlethemic.org/)...

Alain Rouy has been re-elected Vice President of IPB in 2025 after is first term (2022-2025) and formerly being a board member (2019-2022). Peace activist, representative of French Appel des Cent against nuclear weapons and currently National Secretary of Mouvement de la Paix, Executive Secretary of International Association of Educators for Peace and IAEP-delegate at … Continue reading "Alain Rouy – Vice President"...

Steven Staples is  IPB’s Treasurer and former Vice-President. He is currently the National Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Canadian Health Coalition, an accomplished policy and research strategist, published author, and award-winning peace and social justice advocate with over 25 years of experience in community organisations and the labour movement...

Yayoi Tsuchida was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. She has worked at the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo) for more than 30 years in different positions. Since 2006, she has served as the Assistant General Secretary of Gensuikyo. Before that, she … Continue reading "Yayoi Tsuchida – Board Member"...

Raza Shah Khan was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of peace and disarmament. Raza has a master’s degree in Peacebuilding from Coventry University in the UK and has worked on several humanitarian disarmament … Continue reading "Raza Shah Khan – Board Member"...

Oleg V. Bodrov was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. Prior to that, he was a member of the IPB Council.  He is an engineer-physicist, environmentalist and chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia. ...

Kate Hudson was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. Kate is currently General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). She have held that post since 2010 and prior to that she was Chair of CND from 2003 to 2010. Before employment with CND, … Continue reading "Kate Hudson – Board Member"...

Emily Rubino was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. She has been involved with Peace Action New York State in various capacities for the past few years and is currently the Executive Director...

Cyrille Rolande Bechon has been elected as an IPB board member in 2025 and is a former IPB council member (2022-2025). She holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and the Rule of Law and is a PhD student in the field of law. She has been working at NDH-Cameroon since 2003, and thus has … Continue reading "Cyrille Rolande Bechon – Board Member"...

Aslak Storaker was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. He works as a librarian in Tvedestrand, Norway and has been involved in the Norwegian peace movement since 2001...

Ernest Gibson Kpordotsi was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. He is currently the co-founder and Director of Programs and Projects at the Bureau of African Peace in Ghana. Before that, he was the Yes Abroad Programs Coordinator at the Intercultural Exchange Program as well … Continue reading "Ernest Gibson Kpordotsi – Board Member"...

Angelo Cardona was elected a board member in 2022 and has been re-elected for a second term in 2025. Formerly, he was a council member from 2019 to 2022.. He is a peace and disarmament activist. He is considered one of the leading figures of pacifism in Colombia for his fight for the implementation of … Continue reading "Angelo Cardona – Board Member"...

Yuhi Shimada was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Yuhi Shimada is based in Japan. He is the National Executive Board Member of Gensuikyo (Japan Council against A & H Bombs)...

Terry Rockefeller was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Terry Rockefeller is based in the USA and is the Co-chair of the Rule of Law Committee of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The committee’s focus is on closing the detention facilities on the Guantanamo Naval Base and ending the extrajudicial military … Continue reading "Terry Rockefeller – Council Member"...

Sahlim Charles was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Sahlim Charles, based in Kenya, is the founder and Executive Director of Re-Imagining New Communities, a Kenyan peacebuilding organization that he established to address the root causes of social fragmentation, intercommunal tensions, and generational disconnect...

Sergio Bassoli was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Sergio Bassoli is based in Italy. He is a CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) senior expert on voluntary bases on peace dossiers, and the Coordinator of the Executive of Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo (Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament)...

Nathaniel Msen Awuapila was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Nathaniel Msen Awuapila is based in Nigeria. He is the President of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), one of Africa’s leading professional peacebuilding organizations...

Mina Damnjanović was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Mina Damnjanović is a long-standing peace activist from Serbia, now based in Berlin. She is affiliated with Women in Black in Serbia and an engaged member of WILPF International (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom). She is the co-founder and program coordinator … Continue reading "Mina Damnjanović – Council Member"...

Miguel Álvarez Gandara was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Miguel Álvarez Gandara is based in Mexico. In 1996 he co-founded SERAPAZ – the abbreviation SERAPAZ has got a double meaning: Services and Advices for Peace and also There will be peace. It is a Mexican civil society and non-for-profit organization, independent … Continue reading "Miguel Álvarez Gandara – Council Member"...

Ludo De Brabander was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Ludo De Brabander is a Belgian writer and spokesman for the Belgian peace organisation Vrede vzw...

Hevelyn Ghizzi was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Hevelyn Ghizzi is based in Brazil; she is an international analyst and a master’s student in International Relations.She is the president of Dhesarme – Ação Brasileira pelo Desarmamento Humanitário (Brazilian Action for Humanitarian Disarmament), a non-profit, non-partisan civil society organization dedicated to promoting … Continue reading "Hevelyn Ghizzi – Council Member"...

Gabriel Aguirre was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Gabriel Aguirre is Latin America Organizer for World BEYOND War, is from Venezuela, and is currently based in Bógota. He has been an activist and advocate for peace, social justice, international solidarity and human rights, and has more than 13 years of experience … Continue reading "Gabriel Aguirre – Council Member"...

Fatima Medani was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. Fatima Medani is from Sudan and is based in the USA. She is a Strategic Governance and Policy Advocate with 9 years of cross-sectoral experience advancing youth engagement, feminist movement resilience, and grassroots peacebuilding...

Ejimole Fidelia Onwuekwe was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025. She also served as an IPB Council member for the 2019–2022 term. Ejimole Fidelia Onwuekwe is based in Imo State, Nigeria. She is a retired nurse and the founder of the World Youth Peace Organization, an NGO established to help empower youth...

Ahmad Bakdad was elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after working with IPB as Assistant Coordinator. He is from Syria, he is committed to promoting child rights and gender equality, and supporting vulnerable communities, particularly children and women. Dedicated Safeguarding & Protection practitioner and project manager, specialized in capacity building and policy … Continue reading "Ahmad Bakdad – Council Member"...

Amani Aruri was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. Amani has developed skills and capacities in the fields of social transformation, community activism, human rights, peace and security, advocacy, national dialogue and peace mediation to advance gender equality, economic wellbeing, social justice and human rights agendas … Continue reading "Amani Aruri – Council Member"...

Eskil Grav was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. He is a member of the IPB family,  and active in the fields of peacebuilding and disarmament. He has past experience working in community and peacebuilding activities in both Tanzania and Lebanon, and a has a … Continue reading "Eskil M. Grav – Council Member"...

Esset Samatova was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. She is an experienced psychologist and activist from Russia, who since 2011 has been active in the fields of human rights, democratic values, peace and non-violent communication aiming at a more peaceful country through cooperation and … Continue reading "Esset Samatova – Council Member"...

Baroness Dayon Ako-Adounvo was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. She has a background in biology and sales & business organization, airport operations and marketing. She is the founder and leader of the International Education Connect Agency which supports capacity building for the socio-economic development … Continue reading "Baroness Dayon Ako-Adounvo – Council Member"...

Tord Björk was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. He is currently Coordinator of the FoE Sweden EU committee and member of the peace committee and the farmer and indigenous committee...

Tyson Smith Berry Jr. was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. Tyson is currently the Executive Director of 4Kids International. He has over 15 years of work experience in humanitarian and social work including education, child protection, peace-building, governance, health, youth and community development. Furthermore, he … Continue reading "Tyson Smith Berry Jr. – Council Member"...

Yurii Sheliazhenko was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. Yurii is the Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, board member at the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, and at the World BEYOND War. Furthermore, he was lecturer and research associate at the Faculty of … Continue reading "Yurii Sheliazhenko – Council Member"...

Annette Brownlie was elected as an IPB Council member in 2025, after serving as an IPB Board member for the 2022–2025 term. She has been very actively involved in the peace movement for over 40 years. She participated in the People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND), a movement which developed during the last nuclear threat peak … Continue reading "Annette Brownlie – Council Member"...

Michelle Clemente joined our team in May 2023. Michelle is a peace and development worker with a decade of experience. Her expertise encompasses peace education, community-driven development, and capacity building in both conflict and non-conflict zones, as well as indigenous communities...

Emily Molinari joined our team in May 2023 as Assistant Coordinator, and since 2024, she has been serving as IPB’s Deputy Executive Director. Among other campaigns and tasks, she focuses on the IPB Latin America Network and the Common Security Working Group. Emily Molinari, from Italy, holds a binational Master’s degree in Conflict, Memory and … Continue reading "Emily Molinari – Deputy Executive Director"...

Sean Conner was appointed Executive Director of IPB in October 2022. He holds a Bachelors in Intercultural and Critical Communication Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Masters in Intercultural Conflict Management from the Alice Salomon Hochschule...