Emmanuel Habuka Bombande is a Senior Mediation Adviser with the Mediation Support Unit, Standby Team of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United Nations (UN-DPPA). He previously served as Senior Mediation Adviser to the Head of MINUSCA in the Central African Republic. With expertise in Mediation process design, he has advised on the establishment of infrastructures for peace in Ghana, Burkina Faso, and the Sudan transition process and has supported dialogue processes and conflict prevention efforts in several countries and recently, Sao Tome and Principe, Montenegro, Comoros, Cameroon, and the Kingdoms of Eswatini and Lesotho. He has worked with regional organisations including ECOWAS, SADC and the East Africa Community in the design and structure of mediation processes. Prior to his current roles with the UN, he served from 2016-2017 in the Government of the Republic of Ghana as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. He has previously served from 2015-2016 as Special Assistant to the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).

Hon. Bombande Co-Founded the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a well-established peacebuilding organization. He served as its executive director for over ten years. He has been a lead facilitator of the Folke Bernadotte Academy-DPPA dialogue and mediation course in Sweden. He is a Peacebuilding scholar-practitioner with a background in social science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). A Masters in Conflict Transformation in Virginia USA with the Eastern Mennonite University and a Fellow and scholar of Peacebuilding Practice in the Kroc Institute for International Peacebuilding of Notre Dame University-Indiana. He is a recipient of many awards including the Millennium Excellence Awards for Peace in Ghana in 2005 and the 2020 Peacebuilder of the Year Award by the Centre for Justice and Peacebuilding of the Eastern Mennonite University. He has also served as Chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflicts (GPPAC) and serves on various Advisory Boards including the Better Evidence Project of the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University-USA.