Beatrice Agyarkoh
Events Officer

Ms. Beatrice T. Agyarkoh, a native of Ghana, joined IPI in April of 1998 and has held a number of positions within the organization. She is currently Events Officer.

Adonia Ayebare
Director, Africa Program

Before joining IPI, Ambassador Adonia Ayebare served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations from 2005-2009. Earlier in his career, Ambassador Ayebare covered major events in the East

Meiko Boynton
Events Officer

Meiko Boynton works with the events team and program staff to organize IPI conferences and meetings, bringing together leading international personalities from politics, media, and academia as well as representatives

François Carrel-Billiard
Managing Director

As the Managing Director of IPI, François Carrel-Billiard works with the President, the Vice Presidents and the Directors in overseeing the direction and management of the institute. He is, in particular,

Craig Charney
Senior Adviser

Craig Charney, Senior Adviser to the International Peace Institute, is a pollster and political scientist and an expert on public opinion in the Middle East and Muslim Asia, conflict resolution, and fragile states. As

Pamela Corn
Development Officer

Pamela Corn joined IPI in March 2008. As IPI’s Development Officer, Pamela is tasked with strengthening its development strategy and securing new sources of funding. Pamela also works with each program to produce

Anthony Enriquez
Events Officer

Anthony Enriquez joined IPI as Events Officer in the fall of 2008. Working with the Events staff, his duties include the coordination and execution of IPI policy

Mary Anne Feeney
Events Manager

Mary Anne Feeney joined IPI in November 2007. As Events Manager, Mary Anne reports to the Vice President for External Relations. In coordination with program staff and senior management, she

Naureen Chowdhury Fink
Senior Program Officer

Naureen joined IPI in 2006 as part of the program Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change (CWC), in which she currently works on multilateral approaches to transnational security challenges, while also

Peter Gastrow
Senior Fellow & Director of Programs

Peter Gastrow joined IPI as Senior Fellow in April 2009. His research and policy work focuses on transnational organized crime and related threats and involves a review of the current international framework for

Rita E. Hauser
Chair of the IPI Board of Directors

Rita E. Hauser has been Chair of the IPI Board of Directors since 1993.

Dr. Hauser is President of The Hauser Foundation. She is an international lawyer and was a senior partner for more than twenty years at

Ellie B. Hearne
Publications Officer

Ellie B. Hearne joined IPI as Publications Officer in spring 2008. A graduate of the University of St Andrews in the UK, Ellie holds a Master's degree in International Relations (with first-class honors) and

Zelia Herrera
Deputy Director of Finance & Administration

Zelia G. Herrera joined IPI in 1994. As Deputy Director of Finance & Administration, she is charged with the daily running of the office as well as managing Human Resources. In IPI's accounting and financial areas,

John L. Hirsch
Senior Adviser

John L. Hirsch is currently a senior adviser to IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen after having held various positions at IPI,

Warren Hoge
Vice President for External Relations

Warren Hoge joined IPI as Vice President and Director of External Relations in June 2008. In more than three decades as an editor and foreign correspondent at The New York Times, he served as bureau chief in

Mashood Issaka
Senior Program Officer

Mashood Issaka is Senior Program Officer with the Africa program. In addition to coordinating program activities on Africa, he focuses on policy issues in peace and security in African states and analyzes their

Nur Laiq
Senior Program Officer

Nur Laiq joined IPI as the Middle East program officer. Her current work is primarily centered on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Levant, and Iran. She is interested in foreign policy

Edward Luck
Senior Vice President for Research and Programs

Edward C. Luck is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Institute and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, in which capacity he primarily focuses on the responsibility to

Adam Lupel
Editor

Dr. Adam Lupel came to IPI in June 2006. He is responsible for directing the editing, production, and dissemination of all IPI books, policy reports, and related publications. Adam also maintains an active research

Francesco Mancini
Senior Fellow & Director of Research

As Director of Research at IPI, Francesco Mancini serves as principal liaison between the program staff and the office of the Senior Vice President Edward C. Luck and the President Terje R

Tanya McKenna
Administrative Assistant

Tanya McKenna joined IPI in January 2007. She began on a temporary basis assisting the professional development team and the Special Assistant to the President on organizing the 2007 West Point Seminar. Tanya is the

Marilyn Messer
Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President

Christoph Mikulaschek
Senior Program Officer

Christoph Mikulaschek joined IPI as a Program Officer in May 2007, and is conducting research on the implementation of international norms and the role of international institutions in conflict management. He is

Jilla Moazami
Executive Assistant to the President

Ms. Jilla Moazami, a native of Iran and longtime resident of France, joined IPI in 2000 as Assistant to the President. As the principal liaison between the President's Office, IPI Board members, and Staff, she

Njambi Ouattara
Program Administrator

Ms. Njambi Ouattara coordinates the operations of IPI’s research program, Coping with Crisis. Her responsibilities relate to monitoring the budget; grant reporting; editing reports for publication; and planning

Andres Pena
Facilities Assistant

Andres Pena joined IPI in Fall 2008, and works in the finance and administration department, supporting the events team and carrying out various facilities tasks.

Before joining IPI, Andres worked as a

Marie Perez
Financial and Administrative Assistant

Marie D. Perez joined IPI in 2006. She handles a variety of administrative duties, working closely with the Director and Deputy Director of Finance & Administration.

She earned an Associate’s degree in

Chris Perry
Program Officer

Chris joined IPI as a Program Officer with the Coping with Crisis team in July 2008. He is currently working on a project reviewing compliance with all Security Council Resolutions adopted after the Cold War

Apolinar Reynoso
Information Systems Administrator

Mr. Apolinar Reynoso joined IPI in 1998. He is responsible for the Administration of IPI's LAN. He provides technical support and help desk assistance, and he addresses technical problems relating to desktop PCs and

Paul Romita
Program Officer

Paul Romita has been a Program Officer in the Peacebuilding and State Fragility program since June 2009.  Prior to working at IPI, he was a full-time Program Consultant at Security Council Report after finishing a

Terje Rød-Larsen
President

Mr. Terje Rød-Larsen has been President of the International Peace Institute since January 2005. He serves concurrently as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Implementation of Security Council Resolution

Annie Schmidt
External Relations Assistant

Annie Schmidt joined IPI in April 2009.  Annie works closely with both Vice President for External Relations Warren Hoge and Managing Director François Carrel-Billiard, managing IPI’s ACT! database and providing

Jenna Slotin
Associate

Jenna joined IPI in April 2007 as a Program Officer working on statebuilding and peacebuilding. Her research interests include state fragility, postconflict reconstruction, and the challenges of international

Adam Smith
Associate

Adam Smith is a policy analyst working under IPI’s Coping with Crisis program. He joined the International Peace Institute in 2006 and served as Special Assistant to the Vice President through August 2007.

Jill Stoddard
Web Editor

Jill Stoddard is a two-time Webby award winner formerly with Columbia Business School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Jill graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992 with a B.A. in

Ana Tangarife
Facilities Manager

Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir
Senior Program Officer

Svanhildur joined IPI in April 2008 as a Program Officer with the Coping with Crisis program. Her research focuses on new and emerging global threats and challenges, including climate change, with a special focus

Marvin Eliza Trujillo
Events Officer

Ms. Marvin Eliza Trujillo is IPI's Events Officer. In this capacity, she manages IPI's Database and IPI's bulk email and bulk fax system. Marvin Eliza was hired by IPI in May of 2000 and has worked within two

Pim Valdre
Director of External Relations

Ms. Pim Valdre serves as the Director of External Relations. Pim joined IPI in January 2006 as Program Officer for Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change. In this research program she focused on crisis

Susan Waugh
Accountant

Susan Waugh joined IPI in June 2009 and is currently the accountant in the finance department.  She works closely with the Director of Finance. Her responsibilities include all accounting functions.  

She

Chris Wing
Senior Adviser

Christine Wing serves as a Senior Adviser to IPI on the topic of nuclear proliferation. Chris holds a Ph.D. in international security studies from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Chris is

David Witt
Director of Finance & Administration

Mr. David Witt joined IPI in October 2006 as Director of Finance & Administration. In this role, he oversees financial management and reporting, program operations, legal and regulatory compliance, human resources,

Vanessa Wyeth
Senior Program Officer

Ms. Vanessa Wyeth joined IPI in February 2004, working on postconflict statebuilding and peacebuilding. She co-edited IPI's recent volume