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Policy Advisory Board
SSCC is proud to have been able to include on its policy advisory board distinguished global leaders, champions of peace and sustainable development. They have joined in their personal capacity, but their support for SSCC programmes strengthens the Council’s role in the world

Hon. Dr. Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings

Member of Ghanaian parliament for the Klottey-Korle Constituency

Mrs. Cecile Guidote Alvarez

Director, Earthsavers Dream Center, UNESCO Artist for Peace

H.E. Ivonne A Baki

Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States of America, Former Minister, former President of Andean Parliament

H.E. Nancy Bakir

Former Minister of Culture, Formwawer Minister of Public Sector Forum

H.E. Vinicio Cerezo

Former President of Guatemala, former Secretary- General of Central American Integration System (SICA)

Mrs. Ela Gandhi

Hon Executive Trustee of the Gandhi Development Trust (GDT), Trustee and Hon Secretary of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust, Trustee and Hon Treasurer of Phoenix Settlement Trust, Co - President of World Conference on Religions for Peace international

Her Excellency Sheikha Dr. Hissah Saad Abdullah Al- Salem Al- Sabah

Royal Family Kuwait

H.E. Jose Ramos Horta

President of Timor Leste, Nobel Peace Laureate, current Senior, Minister, national Security Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Timor Leste

H.E. Ambassador Karl Erik Norman

Founder (2002) and Secretary General of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP), the only Pan-European forum for cultural personalities from all sectors of Arts. The ECP has 160 members from 43 European countries

Mr. Fernando Pena

Honorary Consul of Estonia, President, MOF (Subic) Inc., Deputy Executive Director, Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CDI) Honorary Consul of Estonia

Dr. Damien Pwono

Institut National des Arts, Kinshasa, RDC. Professor of Music, Cultural Management and Cultural Diplomacy (2016 - Present)

Teaches Ethnomusicology, World Music, and Jazz, as well as Cultural Projects Planning/Management.

Nacho Sánchez Amor

Member of the European Parliament since July 2019 EP Standing Rapporteur on Turkey (since September 2019) S&D Coordinator on human rights (DROI) (since May 2021 Former Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Spain

H.E. Ambassador Filippe Savadogo

Burkinabe diplomat, was the representative of The Francophonie at the United Nations in New York. Prior to the United Nations, he was Minister of Culture, Tourism and Communication and Spokesman of Government

Ms. Hedva Ser

An internationally recognized artist, UNESCO Artist for Peace, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Diplonacy

Mr. Anil Sooklal

Deputy Director-General, Department of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa, and Chair, Committee of Senior Officials of IORA

H.E. Johanna Svanikier

Founder, President and CEO of the Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa (HACSA) Foundation

Former Ambassador of Ghana to France, Portugal , Permanent delegate to UNESCO and La Francophonie.

H.E. Claudia Turbay

Former Ambassador of Colombia in Ghana and 17 other West African countries. The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Ghana

Hon. Tafanana Zhou

He is Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe Mberengwa North Constituency, since 2013, who believes in promoting and protecting the constitutional rights and interests of members of my society through representing them in preparing, initiating and implementing national legislation