On November 13th, 2025, the Onero Institute Africa Program hosted Devon Knudsen, a Senior Fellow at the Alliance for Peacebuilding and a former member of the US Department of State, and Rachel Grand , a current JD student and former Atrocity Prevention and Women, Peace and Security Policy Advisor at the US Department of State, for a panel on the status and experiences of women in Africa at the George Washington University. Knudsen and Grand drew themes from the stories of female leaders in...

At Onero's “Research Experts Panel”, GW hosted Donatienne Ruy , the Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Leadership Academy and Executive Education Portfolio and fellow for the CSIS’ Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, and Dr. Sadeq Hasan , a diplomat and political analyst at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC. During the moderated portion of the panel, the two answered questions on what drew them to research and their specific fields of study, their career...