Éliane Duthoit (born 1946, Brittany), a French citizen, is a senior United Nations official at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Since the early 1990s, Duthoit was appointed successively Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Ingushetia (covering Chechnya), and then head of the OCHA offices in Uganda, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Southern Sudan, and latterly Chad. Between these appointments, she carried out short assignments with other functions in Burundi and elsewhere.

In Uganda, Éliane Duthoit played an important role in attracting international attention to what the United Nations believed was a forgotten humanitarian crisis.

In Chechnya, she played an important role in facilitating negotiations between the Russian military and Chechen rebels to ensure humanitarian relief for internally displaced persons (IDPs).

In 2006, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as head of the OCHA office in Juba, Southern Sudan, under the leadership of Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland. This was when humanitarian needs were gradually leading the way to development, in which OCHA along with other United Nations agencies reportedly played an important role. In Southern Sudan, she also played a significant role, in facilitating negotiations at the 2006-2007 Juba talks between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), hosted and mediated by the Government of Southern Sudan with United Nations support in the person of Joaquim Chissano as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for LRA-affected areas.

Kenneth S. Filiano (b. October 27, 1952, Patchogue, New York) is an American jazz double bassist. He is associated with the modern free improvisational scene.

Filiano studied trumpet at Syracuse University from 1970, but switched to double bass in 1974 and graduated in 1978. After moving to Boston he worked with Mark Harvey and Arnie Cheatham, and formed a duo with Steve Adams^{[disambiguation needed ]}. He moved to Los Angeles in 1982, where he worked extensively with Vinny Golia. He played with Hafez Modirzadeh and studied under Bertram Turetsky in the mid-1980s, also studying at various colleges in southern California in the late 1980s. He played with Rob Blakeslee, Tina Marsh, Bob Rodriguez, John Rapson, Richard Grossman, Kim Richmond, Bonnie Barnett, Tad Weed, Don Preston, Bill Perkins, Marty Ehrlich, and Jimmy Cleveland in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989 he toured France with Billy Mintz.

He moved to New York City in 1994, and studied at Rutgers (1994–97). He also studied under Michael Moore. Later associations include those with Steve Swell, Roswell Rudd, Lou Grassi, Paul Smoker, and Chris Chalfont. He has also worked as a freelance musician with Frank Morgan, James Newton, Milcho Leviev, John Heard, Joelle Leandre, Bobby Bradford, Warne Marsh, and Kenny Barron. In 1998 Filiano recorded Firstlight, a CD with the Frank Giasullo Quartet, headed by composer, arranger, pianist Frank Giasullo. His first session as a leader, Subvenire, apperared in 2002.