Naureen Chowdhury Fink
Program Officer
fink@ipinst.org
Naureen joined IPI as a Program Officer with the team working on “Coping with Crisis, Conflict and Change: The United Nations and Evolving Capacities for Managing Global Crises” (CWC), where she works on transnational security challenges while also focusing on IPI’s Asia-related programming. Her research interests include politically and religiously motivated violence and terrorism, with a particular focus on the Middle East and South Asia. Among the projects in her current portfolio are the recently launched IPI Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Capacity, where she is focusing on Task Force One on Transnational Security Challenges; managing a book project on “Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia”; an analysis of UN Field Management Capacity undertaken with CWC colleagues; and a research project examining concerns about radicalization and terrorism in Bangladesh, and its relationship to South Asian regional dynamics. Additionally, as part of the CWC team, she continues to work with IPI’s partners and friends to facilitate constructive dialogue among academics, UN practitioners, and the diplomatic community in New York.
Naureen obtained her BA from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London) and an MA in War Studies from King’s College (London), where she wrote her dissertation focusing on diplomatic negotiation and the Arab-Israeli conflict: “Negotiating with the Enemy: The Oslo Accords and their Implications for Israel, the PLO and Hamas.” Prior to IPI, Naureen worked with the Middle East Programme at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London, and has previously worked with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. She has also spent some time working with the arts, through museums and auction houses in New York and London. She speaks English, German, Bengali, and French.