Dr Renata Dwan

Renata Dwan is a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House. Until July 2022, she served as the institute’s deputy director, where she oversaw its research agenda and programmes. She is also a non-resident fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC).

From 2018–20, Renata was director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva where she developed programmes linking arms control to conflict management, gender and emerging technologies.

During her years in the UN she worked on peace operations and complex emergencies in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Mali and Syria. She led major UN-wide policy initiatives on peacekeeping, security sector reform and crisis management capacities.

Prior to the UN, Renata led Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s programme on armed conflict and conflict management and was deputy director of the EastWest Institute security programme in Budapest. She was a special adviser to the European Union Council Secretariat on crisis management issues.

Renata has published widely on peacekeeping, international conflict management and peacebuilding. She received her MPhil and DPhil in international relations from Oxford University.