Meet Our Administrative Team
APi dhadda
SecreTary-General
Api Dhadda is a senior studying Politics and Economics at NYU’s College for Arts and Sciences. Api grew up in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, but she was born in Illinois.
She first fell in love with Model UN in 6th grade—when she attended a local conference at Bergen County Academies—and the rest, as they say, is history. She continued to pursue competitive MUN through high school, as Head Delegate, and in college, on NYU’s Travel Team.
At NYU, she began her conference journey as a chair in EmpireMUNC VIII, shoutout Arab League. Then, she served as Director of Crisis for EmpireMUNC IX. Last year, due to her passion for perfecting the committee experience, she served as Director-General of Content. Now, she is proud to serve as Secretary-General for EmpireMUNC XI, curating the same engaging experience for current delegates that she cherished at their age, to ensure they feel inspired and empowered throughout the conference.
Outside of Model UN, Api really enjoys exploring coffee shops, painting pottery, and discovering new artists.
Olivia archard
Director-General of operations
Olivia Archard is a senior double majoring in Global Liberal Studies with a concentration in Law, Ethics, History, & Religion, and History and minoring in Politics. Hailing from the beautiful Granite State (aka New Hampshire), Olivia has an inherent love of the Fall, skiing, and Dunkin Donuts. Additionally having spent her full freshman year abroad in Florence, Italy, Olivia has a deep passion for traveling, enrichment through museums, and an overall love of adventure. Olivia has been an active member of Model United Nation since her freshman year of High School in which she joined the Bedford High School MUN Club. Following graduation and her year away, Olivia had the great honor of joining the NYU MUN Travel Team in the Fall of 2022, chairing the UNSC committee at EMPIREMUNC VIX, and serving as Director of Delegate Affairs for EMPIREMUNC X. Having loved guiding delegates to ensure an amazing experience, Olivia is excited to bring that same energy to this year's conference as the Director-General of Operations.
Ananya Banerjee
Director-General of content
Ananya Banerjee is a junior studying Politics and Data Science in the College of Arts and Sciences. She was raised in New Jersey and has been involved in Model UN since middle school. As a General Assemblies delegate in high school, Ananya received the honor of Best Delegate at many prestigious international conferences, such as NAIMUN and ILMUNC. At NYU, Ananya has been on the Model UN Travel Team since freshman year and has served as the Director of General Assemblies for EmpireMUNC X and Director of Marketing for NYUMUNC. She hopes every delegate enjoys the amazing committees the content team made for them with love and care this EmpireMUNC! In her free time, Ananya loves listening to Kendrick Lamar (whom she saw in concert and will never stop talking about), watching movies, and being way too invested in bad reality television. She is also a huge Manchester United fan, a How I Met Your Mother enthusiast, and can be found watching a Steelers game every Sunday. Ananya is delighted to be your Director-General of Committees this year and aspires to provide the best committees EmpireMUNC has ever seen!
Meet Our Directorate
USG of General Crisis USG of General Assembly
Christopher Gilmartin Tammy Tam
Christopher Gilmartin is the USG of Crisis Committees for this upcoming EMPIREMUNC XI. He is currently a sophomore here at New York University double majoring in Physics and Psychology and also serves as the NYUMUN’s treasurer. Chris’ passion for learning has guided his love for MUN crisis committees as there is nothing better than debating some niche topic with your friends. He hopes you have as much fun competing in these committees as we have had creating them :). If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Tammy is a junior at NYU studying Politics and Psychology. She is passionate about women empowerment and gender rights, especially about women in law. Aside from MUN, she spends her time outside from school at museums, art galleries, and play badminton. She would like to encourage all delegates to have fun, think critically outside the box, and engage with global issue. Tammy is very excited to see all the wonderful collaborations and ideas that each and every one of you have that will make this year’s EmpireMUNC memorable!
USG of Logistics USG of Logistics
Rahul Mahesh LAILA REHMAN
Rahul is a senior at NYU studying Politics and Economics. He has been involved in NYU Model UN for three years now serving as a Chair and Crisis Director of various committees at EmpireMUNC and NYUMUNC. Aside from MUN, Rahul is involved in ROTC, Chess Club, and is an avid runner. He looks forward to putting together an engaging conference for delegates this fall.
Laila is a junior from New Jersey studying Politics and Environmental Studies. She has been competing in Model UN since high school and is super excited to work behind the scenes with logistics for this year’s EmpireMUNC. Outside of MUN, you can find her painting, making playlists on Spotify, or competing with NYU’s Mock Trial team. She looks forward to a fun and productive conference this fall!
USG of Delegate Affairs USG of Personnel
SONALI SHAH IRELYN MULVANEY
Sonali is a sophomore from Central New Jersey studying Psychology while on the pre-medical track, with a double-minor in Chemistry and Film. She’s currently serving as your Director of Delegate Affairs. Outside of her professional and academic life, Sonali is an avid gym rat and a powerlifter. As a backroom veteran, she hopes for this to be an unforgettable conference and is thrilled to meet all of the delegations at EmpireMUNC XI!
Irelyn Mulvaney is a junior majoring in psychology, and will be pursuing a Bachelor-Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at NYU GSAS. Irelyn has been involved in running NYU Model UN conferences since her freshman year as a Crisis Analyst, Crisis Director, and member of Secretariat. Irelyn comes from San Diego, California and in her free time she enjoys playing video games, watching anime, thrifting, reading, and hiking with her two dogs. As the USG of Personnel, Irelyn loves the opportunity to help host fun and engaging conferences for empire staffers while making sure that high school delegates have an amazing experience and get to enjoy all that nyu has to offer!
AUSG of Committees USG of Training
SARA KHAn Caio Martins Lanes
Sara Khan is thrilled to be the AUSG of Committees! She is a senior at the College of Arts and Science pursuing a degree in International Relations and a minor in Economics. Although born in India, Sara has lived abroad her entire life in Russia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and now New York City! She was a part of the Model UN program in High School and has enjoyed being a part of the program throughout college. She is here to support you throughout this conference and hopes you enjoy pursuing your passion for global politics by collaborating with each other! Sara is excited to meet all of you over the course of these amazing four days and to explore in-depth these complex and fascinating topics.
Caio is the USG of Training. He grew up in Brazil and attended high school in Westchester County, he has lived in New York for nearly eight years. A senior majoring in History and Politics, Caio loves entering into passionate debates about deep questions from the proper order of milk and cereal to the age-old question of whether hotdogs can be considered sandwiches. When Caio isn’t studying or arguing, you may find him obsessing about the World Surf League, praising Brazilian football players, or dropping his score at chess.com. Having first done Model United Nations in Brazil, Caio has also attended several high school and college conferences. He has served as crisis director, chair, joint-crisis director, and as USG of General Crisis in EmpireMUNC X. In this position, he is excited to oversee the discussion of challenging and thought-provoking topics, fostering engaging and stimulating debates for all participants.