ICMP Board of Commissioners
The experience of ICMP’s Board of Commissioners ensures that the organization benefits from the highest standard of strategic direction and oversight.
Current Commissioners include
Ambassador Knut Vollebæk, former Norwegian Foreign Minister, Chairperson
Mr. Knut Vollebæk was born 11 February 1946 in Oslo and is a distinguished Norwegian diplomat and politician. Mr. Vollebæk served as the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities from 2007 to 2013.
Her Majesty Queen Noor, Jordan
Queen Noor is a global public servant and outspoken advocate for cross cultural understanding and conflict prevention and recovery issues such as refugees, missing persons, poverty, climate change and disarmament.
Ambassador (Ret) Thomas Miller
In his nearly three decades as an American career diplomat, Ambassador Miller has held three Ambassadorial appointments in the U.S. diplomatic service.
Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Ambassador Rolf Ekéus was born in 1935 and has had a distinguished career in international diplomacy, with a strong focus on arms control, disarmament, and conflict prevention.
Rt. Hon. Alistair Burt, British Member of Parliament
Alistair Burt entered Parliament for the first time in 1983 for Bury North and since 2001 has been the Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire.
Judge Sanji Monageng
Sanji Monageng is Botswana’s High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa. She was appointed a Judge of the Southern African Development Community Administrative Tribunal in 2019. The same year, she became the founder President of the Competition and Consumer Tribunal of Botswana (2019). Before that, she was a judge at the International Criminal Court in […]
María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila
Mayu Avila has broken many barriers. An El Salvadoran lawyer who served as the first woman Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004, she is also the first woman to become president of a private bank and an insurance company in El Salvador, and one of the first to sit on the regional Board […]
Bert Koenders
Bert Koenders holds the Kooijmans Chair in Peace, Security and Justice at Leiden University and is Chairman of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs. He also advises international institutions, including the World Bank, on fragility. Mr Koenders served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands from October 2014 to October 2017. He was […]
Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann
Before being appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands in 2016, Ambassador Brengelmann served as Special Representative for Cyber Foreign Policy at the Federal Foreign Office and then as Germany’s Ambassador to Brazil. From 2010 to 2013 he was NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, where he advised the Secretary General on political […]
Barbara Haering
Barbara Haering has been a member of the Swiss Parliament, chairing the Security Committee as well as the Committee on Science, Education and Culture and serving as Vice-President to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. As Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly she chaired and participated in a large number of election observation missions. Dr […]
Thao Griffiths
Thao Griffiths joined Meta in December 2021 as Public Policy Head for Vietnam. Before that, at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) she played a key role connecting the Government of Vietnam with the private sector and with key international partners such as the US Government. Ms Griffiths has worked across many fields, […]
Former Chairpersons
Bob Dole, Honorable U.S. Senator (1997 – 2001), Cyrus Vance, former U.S. Secretary of State (1996 – 1997)
Former Commissioners
Susanna Agnelli (1998 – 2000), Jose Ayala-Lasso (1996 – 1997), Robert Badinter (1996 – 1997), Lord Carrington (1996 – 1997), Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (2000 – 2003), Cornelio Sommaruga (1996 – 2000), Max van der Stoel (1996 – 2001), Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1996 – 2004), Michael Portillo (1998 – 2012) and Carolina Barco (2009 – 2014).