Stine Lehmann-Larsen

Stine Lehmann-Larsen iis Deputy Executive Director at the European Institute of Peace, overseeing the Institute’s Engagement, Dialogue and Process Facilitation Unit. This entails several large-scale political engagements in Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan, Colombia/Venezuela, the Great Lakes Region, Sudan, and the Gulf and Yemen, to name a few. On a global scale, she is driving forward discreet dialogue between protagonists and conflict parties on sensitive issues while supporting European actors in developing viable strategies in conflict and transition environments. As such, she is responsible for ensuring that the Institute is responsive to the broader political challenges to peacemaking and acts as a strategic resource for its European partners. 

Since its establishment, Stine has committed herself to developing the Institute into one of the worlds leading organizations in peacemaking, building up a strong and strategically relevant portfolio, through an impressive network and state of the art expertise to support peacemaking in the world’s conflict zones. 

Her career has been dedicated to advancing the way peacemaking and in particular mediation is carried out. Before joining EIP in 2015, she worked for eight years at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), where she led a wide range of initiatives that focused on support to peace processes, facilitating dispute resolution, and building strong and lasting partnerships with local and international actors in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Prior to that, she worked at the Danish Defence Academy, the Danish Institute for International Studies, and the Danish Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Her field of experience also includes work for an NGO in Cairo, and the set-up of a consultancy focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility and Change Management.

Since 2017, she has been a member of the Nordic Women’s Mediator Network, and she is on the Board of the Peace Dividend Initiative in Geneva.