Staff:
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Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head of UNU-ONY
Junior Professional Fellows
Past Junior Professional Fellows
Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head of UNU-ONY, was a Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.
Jean-Marc Coicaud is the author of L’introuvable démocratie autoritaire (1996), Politics and Legitimacy. A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002) (also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic). He co-authored (with Charles A. Kupchan, Emmanuel Adler, and Yuen Foong Khong) Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (United Nations University Press, 2001). He co-edited, with Daniel Warner, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (UNU Press, 2001), with Veijo Heiskanen, The Legitimacy of International Organizations (UNU Press, 2001), and with Michael W. Doyle and Anne-Marie Gardner, The Globalization of Human Rights (UNU Press, 2003). In 2006 he will publish Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press), The Politics of International Solidarity (in Japanese with Fujiwara Shoten, and in Chinese with SDX Joint Publishing Company), as well as a co-edited volume, with Daniel A. Bell, Ethics in Action (Cambridge University Press).
Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council for the United Nations Systems (ACUNS) and he serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l’innovation politique (Paris).
S. Chidambaranathan "Nathan" has served as Special Advisor to the Rector focusing on institutional development since 1992. He is currently engaged in the development of the UNU Biotechnology Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNU-BIOLAC) in Caracas as an International Center for Biotechnology (UNU-ICB). He had primary responsibility for the establishment in 1996 of a new center, the UNU International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
In 1976, Mr. Chidambaranathan joined the United Nations University in Tokyo as Senior Governmental and Institutional Relations Officer in the Planning and Development Division. Earlier he participated, as an observer, in the 1973 Paris meeting of the UN/UNESCO Founding Committee that drew up the draft Charter of UNU. In 1981 he was appointed as Executive Officer in the Office of the Rector and advised and assisted the Rector in the executive management and growth of UNU. In 1989 he became Director of the UNU Office at the United Nations, Mr. Chidambaranathan holds a B.Sc(Hons), M.Sc of the University of Madras, India.
Peter J. Marcotullio, Adjunct Senior Fellow, for UNU-IAS, works in the Office in New York, where he coordinates the Urban Research group
of the Ecosystems and People Programme. Dr. Marcotullio’s graduate training is
from the University of Pennsylvania (Master’s of Arts in Ecological Biology) and
Columbia University (Master’s of Arts in Geography and Ph.D. in Urban Planning).
Previous work experience includes nine years in Japan with the UNU-IAS
(1997-2006) and seven years at the University of Tokyo Urban Engineering
Department International Urban and Regional Planning lab under Takashi Onishi
(from 1999-2006). He also has taught at Columbia University in the Urban
Planning program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Dr. Marcotullio has participated in international scientific assessments
including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as co-Convening Lead Author (with
Gordon McGranahan, IIED) of the Urban Systems Chapter and is currently a member
of the Special Advisory Committee (SAC) for the new ICSU/SCOPE Global Assessment
of Eco-cities. He is working closely with the ASEAN Working Group on
Environmentally Sustainable Cities on a capacity building effort in the region
funded by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Environmental Change Research. His
academic contributions include co-edited volumes entitled, Scaling Urban
Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back, Earthscan (forthcoming)
with Gordon McGranahan, Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American,
and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions, Ashgate (2004) with Andre
Sorenson and Jill Grant and Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in
the Asia Pacific Region, UNU Press (2001) with Fu-chen Lo. He has published
several articles in peer-reviewed journals and continues to contribute book
chapters to collaborative projects. His research interests include the urban
environmental transitions, with particular reference to North America and the
Asia Pacific and ecosystem approaches as integrative urban environmental
planning tools.
Ramon Ray, Administrative Officer, is responsible for the overall financial, personnel
and administrative functions of the office.
Working closely with UNU
Headquarters in Tokyo and and UNU Centre's around the world, he ensures the
smooth flow of information between UNU System and UN Headquarters in New York.
Mr. Ray coordinates UNU-ONY's communication and marketing activities including
seminars, briefings, and other outreach opportunities. He also ensures that UNU-ONY's
technology infrastructure (web site, wired/wireless networks, computers, etc) is
running smoothly.
Jin Zhang, Programme Assistant, assists UNU-ONY in organizing events, fundraising and various administrative tasks. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her BA in History and Economics from Peking University. Her interests focus on social and sustainable development, gender equality and nonprofit management. Before working with UNU, she acquired work experience at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in New York and Amnesty International, International Secretariat in London, UK. She also worked with local nonprofit organizations in both Michigan and Beijing and conducted field research on Chinese women’s organizations. Jin speaks English, Mandarin and the dialect in the city of Nanchang, where she was born and raised.
Charlotte Mansson has undertaken studies in International Law at the Universiteit Maastricht (Netherlands), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Sweden), and the University of Lund (Sweden), where she also completed her Master Degree. Her Master’s thesis examined the immense problem of street children in Egypt from a legal and human rights pespective - research that was inspired from her human rights work as an intern at the Swedish Embassy. She has also interned at the United Nations Regional Office on Drugs and Crime for the Middle East and North Africa in Egypt, and has worked actively for many NGO’s including the Hope Village Society, the Lawyers Group of Amnesty International, the Association on Foreign Affairs, and Save the Children. Her main research interests are Human Rights Law, Public International Law and Humanitarian Law.
Ibrahim Tahri Lamthari graduated from the SDA Bocconi School of Management with a Masters of Public Management in Milan, Italy. He previously earned a Bachelor Degree of Arts in International Studies, majoring in Political Science and European Studies and a minor in Business Administration, at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. During the year 2004-2005, he studied in France at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris as an exchange student. He Moroccan and is fluent in Arabic, French, English, and Italian
