Richard Amalvy is CEO at Brazzaville Foundation. He has a long record as a leader of international NGOs and has co-designed peace programs in the African Great Lakes Region, the Middle East, and the former Yugoslavia. He also served as youth policy consultant at the World Bank; public and general affairs consultant at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; board member of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe; and vice-president of the Conference of NGOs at the U.N.