​Are you a student or young professional preparing for an internship at an international organization?

​How do you make the most of this opportunity and go from INTERN to EMPLOYED?

​Let's hear from those who have done it at organizations like the United Nations, OAS and OECD!

​This free webinar will feature a panel discussion with international professionals discussing their personal experiences and advice for making the most out of your internship. The focus is on early-career professionals and entry-level positions at intergovernmental organizations.

​If it's your dream to pursue a career in international collaboration, you won't want to miss their INSIGHT and ADVICE! ​

​​This session will be UNRECORDED to better facilitate authentic sharing of experiences.

​Can't make it? We host a career webinar quarterly. Join us for the next one!

​Featuring:

​Kelly Wong (Co-Host and Panelist)

​Kelly Wong earned a MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights and Uppsala University. Upon graduating, she completed an internship the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, and subsequently continued her work as an intern to Consultant at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Her work experience includes service at a private risk advisory firm in London, UK, and as a Security Analyst at at the Senate of Canada. She is now working as Manager for Security Services at an renown engineering firm, headquartered in Canada. Kelly dedicates her personal time to work with students from her alumni and from all over the world to succeed in international academic and professional opportunities.

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​Florence Maher (Co-host and Panelist)

​Florence Maher is a social scientist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she works to advance international co-operation on the human aspects of nuclear safety and improving gender balance in nuclear energy. Prior to her current position, she was a 2018-2020 Rotary Peace Fellow at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, researching multi-stakeholder dialogue on policy processes. From 2011-2018 she was a career foreign service officer with the US Department of State, with assignments in Mexico, Italy, Honduras, and Washington, DC. She holds a Master’s degree in public policy and social research from the International Christian University (Japan) and Bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from Howard University in Washington, DC (USA). She currently serves on the board of the Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association (RPFAA).

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​Paulina Macías (Panelist)

​Paulina Macías is a lawyer and internationalist from Mexico. Her work is focused on reproductive justice, as well as economic, social, and cultural rights. She is currently serving as a Visiting Professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Prior to that, she worked as a professional visitor at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and as a consular officer at the Consulate General of Mexico in New York.

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​Alessia Vedano (Panelist)

​Alessia Vedano has a MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights and Utrecht University. In the past years, she served as a contracted specialist at the United Nations of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on crime prevention and criminal justice matters, and particularly on countering human trafficking, both at HQ (Vienna, Austria) and field level (Maputo, Mozambique). After that, she served as an Assistant Project Officer at the Office of the Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on countering human trafficking in the context of the war in Ukraine. Currently, she holds the position of Anti-Trafficking Adviser at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

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​Rukmini Iyer (Moderator)

​Rukmini Iyer works at the intersection of business, leadership, peacebuilding and systems design. Over the last 23 years, she has worked across the globe with the business, international development and socio-political contexts through the modalities of consulting, facilitation, coaching and dialogue. At her core, she is a dialogue practitioner and gestates questions around what leadership and peacebuilding mean in our world today. Ecocentrism in both of these areas is a major theme of her work. She currently serves on the international boards of Creators of Peace International and Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association. (RPFAA)