Deborah Abrahams

Coaching and consultancy for talks, pitches and presentations

I help speakers shape their ideas into powerful words and deliver them so they make the impact they deserve. Because people who give good presentations know they can be even better.

HAGUE TALKS

A selection of speakers I worked with for Hague Talks events in 2015.

Michael Liu, Founder and Secretary General of the Chinese Initiative on International Criminal Justice and a Civil Party Lawyer at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. 
Hague Talks #1: Human rights violations and international justice

Ambassador Grace Asirwatham, Deputy Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). 
Hague Talks: Women, Peace and Security

Paul Nicholas, Senior Director Microsoft Corporation.
Hague Talks: Secure Societies  

Ambassador Marriet Schuurman, Special Representative on Women, Peace and Security, NATO.
Hague Talks: Women, Peace and Security

Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.
Hague Talks: Secure Societies 

Joris Voorhoeve, Lector in International Peace, Law and Security at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor of International Organisations at Leiden University, member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs and Director of Studies at the Amartya Sen Foundation for Research and Education in International Cooperation. Minister of Defence of the Netherlands (1994-1998).
Hague Talks: Peaceful Thoughts ≠ Peace

Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Hague Talks: Women, Peace and Security

Nawal Yazeji, Co-president of the Syrian Women’s League
Hague Talks: Women, Peace and Security

Hala Al-Dosari, Saudi writer and activist.
Hague Talks: Secure Societies

Maryam Faghihimani, founder and president of the Centre for Cultural Diplomacy and Development
Hague Talks: Peaceful Thoughts ≠ Peace

Hasina Safi, Director at the Afghanistan Women’s Education Center (AWEC)
HagueTalks: Women, powerful agents for peace and security

Hibaaq Osman, founder and CEO at El Karama, Member of the UN Women Global Civil Society Advisory Group.
HagueTalks: Women, powerful agents for peace and security

Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol
Hague Talks: Secure Societies

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