2007
Verena Knaus
Global Lead on Migration and Displacement
UNICEF
Verena Knaus is the Global Lead on Migration and Displacement at UNICEF in Switzerland. She previously held a position of senior policy advisor at UNICEF in Brussels. Before this, Verena co-founded the European Stability Initiative (ESI), a policy-oriented think tank active in the Balkans, Turkey, and the Caucasus. There, she spearheaded empirical research and policy campaigns on issues ranging from women’s rights to visa liberalization, political Islam and post-war recovery. She helped develop ESI's unique methodology, combining labor-intensive data collection with real-time, policy-oriented advocacy.
From 2008-2009 Verena advised the former prime minister and mayor of the divided city of Mitrovica, and in summer 2010 she joined Kosovo's Ministry for European Integration as a strategy advisor. She also helped produce the award-winning documentary film series, "Balkan Express: Return to Europe," seen by more than 2 million viewers, and co-authored the first English-language guidebook dedicated to Kosovo.
The 2007 World Fellows
The 2007 Yale World Fellows include a top television news broadcaster in China, the Chief Operating Officer of the BBC’s New Media unit, members of parliament from Singapore and Ukraine, and one of Southeast Asia’s most critically acclaimed playwrights. “I am very pleased to introduce this extraordinary group of men and women to the Yale community,” said University President Richard Levin. “The World Fellows Program attracts outstanding talent, and Yale will benefit greatly from the Fellows’ presence on campus.” “The 2007 Yale World Fellows not only have remarkable records of leadership,” said Yale World Fellows Program Director Daniel C. Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale,...Read More
