We are a team united by purpose. Our experience in humanitarian and development aid, and our diversity and multi-sector expertise make us innovative, efficient and solutions-oriented change makers.
United Nations Spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Gaëlle has also worked for UNICEF and various NGOs across five continents, including during emergency situations.
Gaëlle Mogli Sévenier has over 18 years of experience as a journalist and Communication Expert in the humanitarian and development aid sector. She is today among the top Sustainable Development Goals influencers around the world. Since 2018, she is devoting her life to ConnectAID to meet the international cooperation's needs that she has identified in the field. Connect on LinkedIn:
The Board of Directors of our NGO is comprised of the following Members:
Chair of the Board - Managing Director at Unigestion SA (Geneva, Switzerland)
"ConnectAID has an innovative approach in a growing market. A project with great potential led by professionals with real convictions as well as a world vision."
Involved from the conceptualisation of ConnectAID, Pierre Bernier brings a holistic understanding and established skill set in areas of management and human resources to the nonprofit organization. He also provides pro-bono expertise and strategic advice for the development of the International Solidarity Network.
Vice President of the Board - UN Adviser and Author of numerous book on the environment and sustainable development (United States)
"ConnectAID is needed now more than ever to ensure limited support gets to where the need is greatest. Solving the world’s challenges has never been about supply shortages – whether that supply is food, resources or medicine. It is always about coordination and matching supply with demand in a timely manner."
Adam Rogers brings ConnectAID more than 25 years of experience as a strategic advisor at the United Nations, and 10 years as a journalist and entrepreneur. His books include The Earth Summit: a Planetary Reckoning; The Intrepid Traveler; The No Mammal Manifesto; and Taking Action Online for the environment, social justice and sustainable development. When asked what motivates him most, his answer is simple: a world based and informed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adam is a strong advocate and team member of ConnectAID.
Along with Geraldine Avela (Executive Assistant), Manon Bical (Video specialist) Tim Black (Director of the Academy),
Carmen Prisca Keller, Ariste Metaxas, Zoe Kidds, Nia Ruth Oluwakemi and many others.
ConnectAID’s team is composed of carefully selected professionals participating as active members of our Swiss NGO,
in addition to our team of Community Advocates from all around the world.
CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT, Co-Founder and Chair of Billion-Strong
"The world has come together to agree on the UN 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to solve our largest global problems. Connect Aid International has brought together NGOs around the world that are on the frontlines supporting the implementation of the UN SDGs. Together we are stronger and can make a huge difference for our living planet, people, and the other inhabitants. I am proud to become an ambassador for this important initiative to save our world."
Global Greens Ambassador, Patron Australian Smart Energy Council, Officer of the Order of Australia.
"Faced with the Climate and Biodiversity crises and overwhelming inequality, committed people, often in small local NGOs are working all over the world to achieve the SDGs but who knows of their work or how to help them? Volunteers without financial or human resources often don’t know one another beyond their community or region nor are they aware that others are prepared to help or how to access that support. ConnectAID is the critical link to amplify these inspiring stories and to enable the whole global effort for the SDGs to be greater than the sum of the parts."
CTO, leader in emergent technology
"We have big, wicked challenges to solve as we work toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I’m personally excited about the power of bringing the world together through the ConnectAID umbrella. Let’s go and go together to make the world a better place!"
Author, activist, academic, futurist – co-author of Negotiating the SDGs
"Today we live in an inter connected world where change is happening at an ever increasing rate. To help balance that ConnectAID has embraced the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework which we can all support to enable us to secure only one earth for generations to come. By connecting us all together we can support each other and projects that make a real difference by utilizing the opportunities that new technology gives us."
UN Adviser & Former Director of the UN Study on violence against children
"I still believe that the world is a generous place and it is possible to live life 'on purpose"; but too often we get wrapped up in our own individual effort and forget that we can do so much more when we are "connected". That is what ConnectAID is all about.
As the proverb goes: " If you want to go quickly go alone, if you want to go far, go together..."
Director of Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies, hosted by UNICEF
"Fantistic initiative, even more than inovative, this is geneous.
Education Cannot Wait is in!"
Executive Director World Geospatial Industry Council - Former Director of GEO & of Space program at WMO
“There are many great organizations addressing the climate, environmental, and development challenges. Yet, each of these efforts are often conducted in isolation, and are rarely integrated. The Earth is an integrated system, and we therefore need integrated approaches to solving global problems. ConnectAID facilitates this integration that we so sorely need. It is a a force-multiplier for achieving SDGs."
Battery Tour Founder, Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, nominated by Amina Mohamed as one of the 17 UN SDG Young Leaders (USA)
"Together with ConnectAID, the International Solidarity Network, we can be the plug: connecting people to international aid and using music as a vehicle to get the world plugged-in to sustainability"
Founder Elite Futurists
“Imagine creating a world that is driven by economic, social and environmental sustainability; a world in which we can be proud of ourselves. This is the vision of ConnectAID. Time to rethink our world vision.”
Co-Founder of DT Lab, Innovation broker.
"My passion is to recognize opportunities that link tech, ideas, and people through networking. I see ConnectAID as a major opportunity for mankind."
Senior Adviser at UN SDSN, Director Sustainable Development Studies at the University College Dublin
"None of us are doing any good unless we are using our capacities for the least developped countries. I am happy, delighted even to be an Ambassador for ConnectAID and to be that academic voice."
Former Director of the Sustainability Programme at Harvard University, Managing Director at Industrial Ecology Consultants
"For those who discover who ConnectAID is and what it's about: there is this true sense that we all belong. ConnectAID's strength is making everyone feel like they fit and everyone feels empowered to do something for sustainable development."
Co-founder @TakeActionEdu
"We need to move to the next level of solidarity. ConnectAID offers a human-centered approach with dedication to building an inclusive community and collective action. We are the people, this is the moment--let's join together for our planet and its citizens."
Co Founder GoImpact General Manager Fintech Association of Hong Kong
"There is a huge urgency to connect the dots in driving the Sustainable Development agenda. ConnectAID is a powerful platform for that. We need to move from intention to action rapidly - there’s no Planet B, and no business to be done on a half dead planet !"
Chief Advocacy and Communication, Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies, hosted by UNICEF
"Congratulations to ConnectAID, what you are building is terrific."
Emergent Technology CTO Global Strategy Advisor - Blockchain AI IoT FinTech Keynote Speaker & Author
Owner, Producer /Director, Talemena Films, LLC
"The ConnectAID Network and its focus on connecting nonprofits and the SDGeneration is a new paradigm that I'm proud to be a part of."
Specialist in Global Communications, Media Relations & Executive Writing
" Not only is a network like ConnectAID needed now more than ever, but groups that can prove their impact toward achieving an SDG will attract greater support – especially from donors."
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