SECRETARIAT
Ruth Zou
Secretary General
Meet Ruth Zou! For the last eight years, Ruth has been involved in Model United Nations as a delegate, page, chair and crisis director. Currently, Ruth is third-year politics major with an economics minor. Besides her interests in MUN, Ruth is a huge fan of BBC podcasts and boardgames like Catan. She is very excited to be the Secretarty General for QMUN 2020 after her three year involvement in QIAA. Ruth hopes that the conference become an opportunity for everyone to learn more about QIAA's other initiatives and MUN processes while enhancing your problem solving, diplomacy and teamwork abilities. She is so excited to meet all the diverse and new people coming to QMUN 202. Don't hesitant to pull her aside if you want to talk and/or have any question or concerns during the conference!
Philipe Haddad
Director General
Meet Phil Haddad! He is the Director-General for our upcoming QMUN Conference! Phil is a third-year History major, Politics minor, focusing on the Middle East, completing a certificate in Law. You may know him from around campus, announcing for the basketball games at the ARC, playing for Queen's (undefeated) rugby varsity club team, or as a founding member and Co-President of the Squirrel-Watching Club! Something you may not know as well is that he is a proud member of the Queen's International Affairs Association and the Queen's MUN team. As such, Phil has been more than happy to get the opportunity to show everyone at Queen's why he loves Model United Nations through QMUN this year! The different levels of pace, the problem-solving, the ingenuity of certain delegates, the competition, the role-playing... Phil could go on and on! His personal goal with QMUN is to show Queen's that there's nothing quite like it, and that everyone can make a change in the world as long as they're passionate and willing to collaborate. Phil knows that our team has spent a lot of time working on this conference to make it an experience worth remembering, and we hope that you all enjoy yourselves! See you guys at Opening Ceremonies!
Megan Fanjoy
Chief of Stall
Meet Megan Fanjoy! Meg is honoured to act as the Chief of Staff for QMUN 2020. A little about her: she is currently in my second year studying Political Studies, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), as well as completing a Certificate of Business. Over the past six years, Meg have had the privilege of traveling across North America as a MUN delegate; serving as the Director General of the sixth annual Queen's Model United Nations Invitational, our sister collegiate conference; writing for Queen's MUSE Magazine; and working at the ~quirky~ coffee shop on campus, Cogro (yes, she can make a mean latte and bruschetta bagel). In Meg's spare time, you will never find her without a cup of coffee in hand and reading feminist-based books. Meg is extremely excited to work alongside the entire staff to facilitate an unforgettable weekend - one which she is certain will be filled with fruitful debate, backroom plots and compromises, and new friendships will be made. Meg hopes that you are just as excited as I am for the best QMUN ever!
Madison Yule
Co-Director of Marketing
Madison Yule is in her second year of Global Development Studies at Queen's University. Madison started her MUN experience last year on the Queen's Model United Nations team. She has since become a member of the QIAA core executive as the Graphics Director, as well as serving on the QMUNi secretariat in 2019 as the Director of Design and Media. Madison is looking forward to her future in the field of ethical tourism and global citizenship, and is beginning her career in the development sphere this summer when she will be interning for a grassroots NGO in Maun, Botswana, called Travel For Impact. Madison is looking forward to QMUN and the opportunity it will provide for Queen's students to experience Model UN, meet a wonderful group of peers, and have a great weekend!
Emily Snyder
Co-Director of Marketing
Emily is a second-year Political Studies major and History Minor. She is the director of QMUN and has been the director of QMUNi this past year. She is also one of the Directors of Speaker Series for the Queen’s International Affairs Association. Emily is also an employee of the Privy Council’s Office and works on campus to promote government employment to students. Emily is passionate about this conference, and QIAA has a whole. Emily hopes to work internationally in foreign affairs after she graduates and hopes to travel all over the world.
Edward “Eddy“ Yuan
Under-Secretary General
Meet Edward Yuan! He has been involved in Model United Nations since high school. Edward is Politics, Philosophy and Economic major and have been a part of QIAA since first year. Throughout his MUN journey, Edward has tried many different roles including being a crisis director, delegate and page. In his spare time, he enjoy historical video games such as Hearts of Iron and making dumplings for his friends. He is excited to serve as one of three Under-Secretaty Generals for QMUN. Looking forward to an exciting weekend of debate, and problem solving! Edward hopes that QMUN will be an awesome opportunity for people for to get acquainted with Module United Nations which he enjoy so much.
Rachel Salem-Wiseman
Under-Secretary General
This here is Rachel Wiseman, a second year majoring in art history. She has been participating in Model United Nations since the beginning of high school and have always found it to be a great way to meet like-minded individuals and create a competitive outlet for herself. Rachel is also the socials coordinator for the MUN team and hope to continue her involvement with the team for the rest of my time here at Queen's. Besides the MUN team, Rachel also volunteer at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre as a student docent, where she leads elementary school classes around the gallery and discuss the different art pieces that we have on display. Rachel really loves the sound of her own voice so both this position and her involvement on the MUN team are proof of that. In the coming years Rachel hopes that QMUN will be able to grow and introduce the student body at Queen's to the wonders of MUN. It will provide an opportunity for us to show the student body that there are different committees and styles of MUN, and most importantly, that it can be fun!
Maxwell Quackenbush
Under-Secretary General
Maxwell is a 3rd year computer science student and proud 1st generation immigrant to Canada..He has been involved in Model UN for over 7 years, and has poured far too many hours into position papers, background guides, and beautiful websites for conferences hosted on Queen’s Campus.
When he isn’t smashing a desk with a gavel, You can find Max 3D printing up a storm in Mitchell Hall’s SparQ Studios Makerspace, or adding fake nicknames to his peers’ biographies on the QMUN website.
Isha GIll
Co-Director of Operations
Isha is a second year Life Science Neuroscience specialization students, who has been a part of QIAA since joining Queen’s University. She is a writer for the Observer journal, a model UN team member, an extended executive of International Development Week, a research assistant in a genetics laboratory, and a Vice President for Chess and Health. She is a Director of Operations for QMUN and hopes to see the conference help students from all faculties embrace international relations and expose them to different political aspects from around the world. As a science student she believes that all faculties have a unique approach to international politics and can provide creative and innovative solutions to the problems that are facing our world currently.
Max Teitelbaum
Co-director of Operations
Meet Max Teitelbaum! He is a political studies major and English minor in my fourth and final year at Queen's. Max was born and raised in Toronto, and he hopes to live there in the future once the housing market (hopefully) becomes more reasonable. Max's future plan/goal is to go to law school, where he hope to start in the fall of 2020. Max is a huge fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Baltimore Ravens, and he hopes to someday go to a Super Bowl. Max have been on the Queen's Model UN team for three years now, and this will be the final conference that he will be a part of. That being said, he is very excited to see how this conference turns out. All of the secretariat members have been putting in obscene amounts of effort in such a small period of time to prepare for the conference in the hopes that it is an enjoyable experience for all delegates, and Max whole-heatedly agrees that it will be up there with the best Model UN conferences Queen's University has ever seen. The conference dates have been marked on my calendar since the beginning of the planning stages, and Max is looking forward to seeing how amazing it turns out!
Hannah Vincent
Events Director
Meet Hannah Vincent. Hannah is a first year political studies student and a first year intern for our mother organization, QIAA. She is extremely interested in international affairs and is so thankful that QIAA has given her a place where she can engage in great events such as QMUN with her fellow peers. Hannah has been doing debate and model United Nations since high school. She plans to continue to participate in these activities through QIAA. Hannah looks forward to this outstanding conference and meeting you all as the director of events!