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2024 World Fellow and Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste, Nino Ximenes, will discuss post-conflict development and reconciliation and the role of religion in Timor-Leste.

As Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste, Ximenes leads an international country team and strives, alongside local civil society partner organizations and communities, to tackle challenges of climate justice, gender equality and gender justice, inclusive economic development, and civic participation.

Before joining Oxfam, Ximenes was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and developed a case report on the Philippines’ Moro conflict, a Senior Access to Justice Manager on a USAID project, as well as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations.