Teresa Whitfield

Teresa Whitfield is an independent consultant and a member of PeaceRep’s International Advisory Board. She is also Senior Adviser to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Associate of Conciliation Resources, and an Adjunct Professor of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University.

From 2016 – 2022 she was Director of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs’ Policy and Mediation Division at the United Nations. She has previously been a fellow of New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and Senior Adviser to the President of the International Crisis Group, and has published widely on peace and conflict issues.