High-level opening session

• Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - video message
• Gen. Abdullah Al-Mal, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the State of Qatar
• Naomi Oyolede, youth representative from Nigeria

Moderator: John Brandolino, Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC

Session I: Making them work - Linking SDG 4 and SDG 16 to make the world safer from crime

Panellists:

• H.E. Iris Rauskala, Minister of Education, Science and Research, Austria
• Hilligje van't Land, Secretary General of International Association of Universities (IAU)
• Victor Manuel Lagos Pizzati, Vice Minister for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador
• Nafieh Assaf, Assistant Deputy Minister for Education, State of Palestine

Moderator: John Brandolino, Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC

Side event: Voices of Youth - Presentation of E4J youth competition winners

Panellists:

• Gen. Abdullah Al-Mal, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the State of Qatar
• H.E. Sultan Salmeen Almansouri, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the United Nations (Vienna)
• Fayza Senan Al-Kaabi, Head of Research Division, ACTA, Qatar

Moderator: Marco Teixeira, Senior Programme Officer, Global Programme Coordinator, UNODC

Find more information on the E4J youth competition and its winners here. In addition to the winners of the E4J youth competition, the side event presented a short video about the winners of another competition held by the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA) in Qatar.

Session II: "Talking" rule of law & "building bridges" - comprehensive approaches to building a culture of lawfulness

Panellists:

• H.E. Arnaldo Bueso, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Education, Honduras
• Patricia Colchero, Coordinator of Research and Studies, National System for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents, Mexico
• Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Assistant Vice-Minister of Justice, Ministry of Justice, Japan
• Salem Al-Ali, Assistant Secretary General of the Prevention Sector, Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha), Kuwait
• Monika Froehler, Chief Executive Officer, Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens

Moderator: Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs

Session III: Creative approaches to strengthening the rule of law through education - good practices from around the world

Panellists:

• H.E. Maria Hilda Marsiaj Pinto, Secretary of Justice, Brazil
• H.E. Renata Deskoska, Minister of Justice, North Macedonia
• Omar Al Nehmeh, Assistant Undersecretary, Ministry of Education, Qatar
• Dr. Zainab S. Bagudu, First Lady of Kebbi State, Nigeria
• Aly Jetha, President and CEO, Big Bad Boo Studios

Moderator: Monika Froehler, Chief Executive Officer, Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens

Wrap-up and closing of Day 1

Marco Teixeira, Senior Programme Officer, Global Programme Coordinator, UNODC