Thomas Colerick
Research Associate

Mie Bastholm Hansen
Research Associate

Lydia Swart
Consultant

Lydia Swart is a consultant at the Center and was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her current expertise concerns the Fifth Committee, Security Council reform, and UN revitalization. From June 2006 through May 2009 she was the Executive Director of the Center. Previously she worked for international NGOs, such as Amnesty International in London; the Animal Welfare Institute, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the Academy for Educational Development in Washington DC; the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Hague Appeal for Peace 1999 (of which she was a founding board member) both in New York and the Netherlands. In 2004 and 2005, she worked for the Secretariat of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. She graduated from the University of Utrecht and has a working knowledge of French and German.

Jakob S. Lund
Consultant

Jakob Silas Lund previously worked for Amnesty International in Denmark, US Congress and the Anne Frank Stichting in the Netherlands. He also has experience from Sierra Leone, where he worked on community-based reconciliation and later set up the organization Play31. Jakob received his BA in public administration from Roskilde University in 2005 and is a recent graduate from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he concentrated in human rights and conflict resolution. He is fluent in English, Danish and Spanish and has working knowledge of French and Portuguese.