Date: December 10, 2022 (Saturday)
Time: 11 PM Korea time (Click here to see the corresponding time in your region)
Presented by: WFWP International and WFWP Europe
Age Range: 20 to 45 years old
Dr. Julia H. Moon, International President
Dr. Julia Moon has been serving as Director General of Universal Ballet since 1996 and is Vice Chairwoman of the Sun Hak Educational Foundation, responsible for the administration of Sun Hwa Arts Middle and High Schools and five other schools in Seoul, as well as Co-Artistic Director of the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC, and of Universal Ballet Academy in Seoul. She has served on the jury for several international ballet competitions, including the Maya Plisetskaya International Ballet Competition in 1996, the Varna International Ballet Competition in 2002 and the Helsinki International Ballet Competition and Premio Roma in 2005, and the Jackson IBC in 2006. Her many awards include the Young Artist Award given by Korea’s Ministry of Culture and the Korean Presidential Award for the Performing Arts. She has also received an honorary doctorate from the Moscow State University of the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit Hwakwan by the Korean government, in 2012 ISPA / International Society for the Performing Arts’ International Citation of Merit, in 2017 Sejong Culture Award by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and in 2018 Seoul City Culture Award. She was appointed as the president of the Women’s Federation for World Peace International in 2019.
Dr. Paris Moon, International Secretary General
Dr. Paris Moon is the International Secretary General of WFWP International since 2020. She has worked for international companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nortel Networks, Seiko Epson, and Microsoft. Her primary responsibilities included mergers and acquisitions, HR common benefits, and strategic workforce planning. In cultural and public affairs, she has worked closely with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in South Korea to promote Korean culture in Hong Kong since 2007, and has served as an external examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2011. From 2019 to 2021, she served as President of the Korean Women's International Network in Hong Kong and Vice- president of Global Children Foundation in Hong Kong. She obtained her doctorate degree in Arts and Cultural Management from Middlesex University, UK.
Mrs. Mitty Tohma, International Vice President of WFWP Europe
Mrs. Mitty Tohma has been the International Vice President of WFWP Europe since 2022, and began her career with WFWP in the UK as a volunteer in 1992, working her way up through Chapter President, National Secretary General, National President, and Vice President of Europe. She initiated and managed various educational projects aimed at improving the status of women and developing youth leaders. She also organized a national conference for women and focused on aftercare programs, which later led to an increase in membership. She also launched a joint project with the Women of Africa organization on the empowerment of African women living in the UK, which was well received and got the Women's Contribution and Development Award. She is fluent in English and Punjabi and speaks a little Japanese. She is certified in Alternative Health Reflexology from West Thames College in London and is a registered nurse.
Mrs. Carolyn Handschin, Director of Office for UN Relations
Mrs. Carolyn Handschin is the Director of the Office for UN Relations, International Vice President, EU Senior Advisor, Board Member, and IAFLP Regional Coordinator for EUME. She studied biology at Thomas More University in Kentucky and worked as a desert guide in the southwest USA and a researcher before coming to Switzerland to join her husband. She had led a series of character-building educational programs for students in Geneva that led to her joining WFWPI soon after its launching in 1992. She has been representing international NGOs at the United Nations since 1993. In 1998, she was appointed to create a team to represent WFWPI at the UN ECOSOC-affiliated bodies in Geneva. In 2021 she was elected as the President of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women at the UN in Geneva.
Dr. Michael Balcomb, Regional Chair of FFWPU EUME
Dr. Michael William Balcomb and his wife Fumiko currently serve as the Regional Chair of the Family Federation for World Peace for the combined 72 nations of Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia. Previously they served as President of the Family Federation in the United States of America from 2013 to 2017. Michael was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1957, educated in England and the United States, and joined the Unification Movement in California in 1976.
Mrs. Yoshiko Pammer, Vice President of FFWPU EUME
Mrs. Yoshiko Pammer graduated with a History of Art degree at Goldsmiths University of London in 2012. Since moving to Austria from her native UK, she has worked as an English teacher and now is a mother of three young boys. Between 2010 and 2015 she was involved in developing the young women activities for WFWP, initially in the UK, then in Austria, and later on the European level. With her husband, Bogan Pammer, they now serve as vice presidents to FFWPU EUME.
Mrs. Kefilwe Lebepe, Team Leader of WFWPI Young Professionals Team
Ms. Kefilwe Lebepe is an active member of WFWP Germany, WFWPI Young Professionals team, and the WFWPI Global Committee for the Environment. Her current work is in environmental protection in South Africa, and she is currently promoting it in other countries such as Zambia, Eswatini, and Lesotho. She is passionate about helping to find solutions to problems affecting young people and the disadvantaged and is working to achieve UN SDG 2030 with the support of WFWP. On the work front, she has over 10 years of experience in banking and foreign exchange. She has also worked with various youth organizations to support character-building education and the moral regeneration of young people.
Mrs. Kyung In van de Ven Oliveira, Youth Representative of WFWP Europe
Mrs. Kyung In van de Ven Oliveira is born and raised in Amsterdam the Netherlands, and has been a youth representative of the WFWP Europe since 2011, and of the Dutch WFWP Chapter since 2014. She has joined the WFWP Intl. UN Team Vienna in the spring of 2021, and is currently working as a legal guardian and child’s advocate of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers at the national guardian institution in the Netherlands.
Moderator:
Mrs. Nicole La Hogue
Youth Representative of WFWP Europe
Mrs. Nicole La Hogue is the former Youth representative of WFWP Europe and worked several times as an intern at the United Nations in Geneva. Through that she attended different conferences around the world, in Europe at the HRC, twice in New York at the CSW and in Korea at the DPI from 2016 until 2019. She has served as the former WFWP Vice President in Germany and is active now as the Vice President of the Central Subregion for FFWPU since 2020. She has a Bachelors of Science in Onlinecommunication from the University of Applied Sciences in Germany, Darmstadt and recently became mother for a second time.
