Holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Director of the CERI Program for Peace and Human Security (CPSH) and editor-in-chief of the Human Security Journal. Director of the Human Security concentration, Master of Public Affairs at Sciences Po. Member of the “Ethics of Liberal Peace” research program led by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)
Former adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs; visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies (2002-2004); visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Summer 2005); visiting scholar at the Russian Centre for Strategic Research and International studies, Moscow (1994). Between1995 and 2002, worked as a staff member of the UNDP in various field assignments in Central Asia, the CIS and Eastern Europe with a last posting as Policy Advisor to National Human Development Reports (NHDR) at the human Development Report Office in UNDP New York.  Provides consultation services to teams preparing National Human Development Reports in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, India, Kuwait, South East Asia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Currently involved in a collaborative project between CERI and the University of Kabul on the differences in perceptions of the construction of a “liberal peace” in Afghanistan.
Participates in the CERI Transversal Project “The End of Violence.”

Teaching
- Sciences Po : “Human Security”, (Master of Public Affairs)

Research interests
- Human security
- Critical approaches to peace-building (liberal peace)
- War and peace in Tajikistan and Afghanistan
- North/South relations and international organizations

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