While every international organization is sui generis, there is a convergence among their human resource challenges; thus, Neeti believes that these challenges require a common forum in which HR professionals can leverage their collective and diverse thinking in tackling some of the key issues we face. As a human resources professional for 23 years and a manager at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), she believes that AHRMIO provides such a forum, and in the six years since its inception, it has developed an impressive array of services for its members.

Neeti is currently Chief of the IMF’s Staff Development Division in Washington, D.C. As a member of the senior management team supporting the Director of Human Resources of IMF, she provides strategic and operational support on career, learning and development, as well as organizational effectiveness.

Neeti has more than 20 years of experience as a human resources professional in international organizations at both the IMF and the World Bank as well as the petroleum industry in India in a wide range of HR functions—assessment, development, organizational development, workforce planning, and recruitment. She has also worked in the field of knowledge management consulting and research for IBM.

Duncan has been engaged in humanitarian work for the UN System for nearly 3 decades: in Mozambique for the United Nations, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Sudan for four dusty years, and later in Geneva for UNHCR in various HR functions. He has also been the Chief of HR for the United Nations Trade and Development Programme, and Chief of Recruitment and Human Resources Policy for the United Nations Development Programme.

What he has always felt passionate about is the unique opportunity of shaping change and helping to make what is often an impossible work environment a better place to be, especially in such important organizations. As he says, “this, surely, is what HR is all about!”

He firmly believes that true change can only occur when everyone realizes that all have a common goal and must find common ways of addressing common challenges; this is where AHRMIO comes in. Duncan has been involved in AHRMIO from the beginning because he believes that it is precisely the kind of forum where HR professionals can exchange experiences and learn from each other.

A founding member of AHRMIO, Jan has long been an advocate for the intrinsic role the Association can play in knowledge sharing across the world of international not-for-profit organizations and in networking with civil society, especially global for-profit organizations and leading academic institutions.
Jan joined UNAIDS as Deputy Executive Director, Management and External Relations, in September 2009.  She brings to this position over 30 years of experience in the political, development, management and interagency areas of the United Nations work, as well as extensive experience in change management.   Before joining UNAIDS, she served as Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, where she introduced improvements in systems and practices to strengthen management and promote system-wide coherence. Previously, as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management in the United Nations, she had responsibility for the development and implementation of organizational human resources policies and programmes covering over 30,000 staff globally. In this capacity, she led the development of the comprehensive human resources management reform strategy in “Investing in People”.

Jan has also served in senior positions in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, the Office of the Administrator of UNDP, the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Management, and the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs. In all these positions, she has been involved in numerous change management initiatives at the level of the United Nations Secretariat and the United Nations system.

Prior to joining the United Nations, Jan served in her country’s diplomatic service, including five years as a delegate to the United Nations.

In response to the constant and increased pace of change and to the complexity of technological, demographic, environmental and social phenomena, all organizations are experiencing significant changes in traditional methods of organization and a marked turn in men's and women's career aspirations. Dyane believes that AHRMIO has a vital role to play by bringing together a vast network of international HR professionals of various organizations. It is the ideal forum for exchanging experiences and knowledge; it is the most important forum for HR people to learn together on cutting edge solutions to the challenges facing international organizations.

Dyane has a diverse background and vast experience in senior positions with both national government and international organizations. She has served as the HR Director of World Food Programme and currently serves as the HR Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Prior to the UN, Dyane worked for the Federal Government of Canada in several key senior roles, including human resources and social-related fields such as immigration, education, employment health, and welfare as well as criminal justice.

In September 2009, Miguel was appointed Director of HR Management in the World Intellectual Property Organization, an Advisory Organizational member of AHRMIO.    Before joining WIPO he had held the position of  Director, Human Resources in the World Trade Organization since 2004.
Over 15 of his twenty years of professional and managerial experience have been in both the private and international public sectors. Prior to joining WTO, Miguel was with the United Nations Development Programme Headquarters in New York as a Business Advisor in strategic planning, talent management and performance management.
His experience in the international not-for-profit sector includes service at UN High Commission for Refugees’ Headquarters in Geneva leading change in the areas of performance and career management. He very much understands the realities of humanitarian work as he has also served in Zambia and Guatemala.

During his career Alan has worked in HR roles or on HR assignments in more than 80 countries and on every continent.  Today he lives and works out of Geneva.  That 34 year HR career has contained three complementary phases of experience.
- The first 20 years were in a variety of HR roles in the private sector in Land Rover, ITT, Grand Metropolitan and Guinness, where he held the position of Director of Global Employment Policy. - The second set of experiences involved running a consulting company dealing with international HR issues in two phases from 1995 to 1999 and 2005 to date. 
- Third, between 1999 and 2005 I was HR Director at the ILO where he learned a lot about the similarities and differences between strategic HR management and influence in the private sector and in international public service organisations.
- In the year 2000, as Director, HR in the ILO, Alan had the privilege to enter the organisation into membership of AHRMIO when it was founded and to host and open the first AMRMIO conference. 

An active member of AHRMIO since its inception, Alan is passionate about improving the strategic engagement of HR staff in the key decisions made by organisations and in building the capacity of HR staff to make a genuine difference. 

A Founding Board Member of AHRMIO, Mary Jane recognized that a vehicle for cooperation among a broad array of international not-for-profit organizations in the field of human resources was very much needed. At the time, no professional HR associations transcended national boundaries or focussed on the unique demands of international not-for-profit organizations. The success of AHRMIO has led to greater fraternity among HR professionals in this sector and has helped to foster lasting and enriching contacts.

Mary Jane has had a long career in the United Nations System serving in various roles. From 2004 to 2006 she served as Secretary of the High Level Committee on Management and Director of the Chief Executives Board Secretariat in Geneva.

Before taking on the whole management area for the UN’s Chief Executives Board (CEB), Mary Jane was the CEB’s Inter-Agency Advisor on Human Resources Management (1992 to 2003). Prior to that (since 1973), she served with the International Labour Organization (ILO), both in HR and in the area of entrepreneurship and management development.

Mary Jane is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bath University School of Management and Bocconi University’s Executive Master on Strategic Human Resources Management.

At the initiative of Roger, AHRMIO was conceived at a retreat of HR specialists – mainly though not entirely drawn from the UN family – in Baden bei Wien (Austria) in 1996. Four years later AHRMIO was born. Roger was its key Founding Board Member. AHRMIO was envisaged as a partnership between international not-for-profit organizations – a commonwealth of shared experience and skills that would challenge conventional wisdom and build on the best policies and practices available in the private and public sectors.

Roger has had a long career in the United Nations System serving in a variety of roles for over 30 years. Until 2003, he held the position of Director of the Chief Executives Board Secretariat in Geneva. The Chief Executives Board is the forum which brings together the Executive Heads of all UN organizations to further coordination and cooperation on a range of substantive and management issues facing the United Nations System.

Fifteen years of his UN system tenure were spent at the World Health Organization (WHO), where he served as assistant Director of personnel in WHO’s headquarters in Geneva as well as chief of personnel at the WHO European and South East Asian Regional Offices. Prior to that, he founded a family planning NGO and from 1965-1973 worked at another NGO - World University Service - in Geneva.

Chris is also one of the Founding Board Members of AHRMIO and since its inception has acted as its academic advisor.

Formerly of Cranfield University School of Management and South Bank University, Chris is now Professor of International HRM at Henley Management College and the University of Reading in the UK. He is a world-renowned expert on international HRM issues and has carried out a number of significant studies on European and International HRM practices. In 2002, he was awarded the Georges Petipas Memorial Award by the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resources management. He regularly consults for UK and international organizations, mainly in the areas of personnel policies and management training.

He is the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of European and international human resources management, employee relations, expatriation and cross-cultural management.