Karin Landgren

Geographic expertise: South and Southeast Asia (Nepal, India and great Myanmar), East and West Africa (Burundi, Great Lakes and Liberia), the Balkans

Topical expertise: UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding, women peace and security, peace agreements, cease fireagreements and monitoring, DDR and SSR, human rights protection, leadership and management

Languages: Swedish, English, French, Japanese and basic Farsi and German

Karin Landgren is a former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General. She is currently the Executive Director of Security Council Report, an independent organization reporting on the work of the United Nations Security Council. She is also the first woman to have headed three United Nations peace operations. She was until 2015 a UN Under -Secretary -General and head of UNMIL, the peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Prior to this, she led two political missions, BNUB, the UN Office in Burundi and UNMIN, the UN Mission in Nepal. Her engagement with human rights-oriented policy and practical responses to crises dates to her work with UNHCR between 1980 and 1998, based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eritrea, the Philippines, Singapore and India, among other countries. She was the UNHCR Chief of Standards and Legal Advice for four years before becoming UNICEF’s first Chief of Child Protection, in 1998. Landgren has lectured widely on conflict and rights -related issues as well as leadership and child protection. After previously teaching at Columbia University and the Central European University she is now a non-resident fellow at New York University, the Center on International Cooperation.