Comfort Ero

Program Director, Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Crisis Group role:

Comfort Ero has been Crisis Group's Nairobi-based Africa Program Director since January 2011. She previously worked with Crisis Group as West Africa Project Director. As Program Director, Comfort oversees projects covering South, West, Central and the Horn of Africa. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Areas of Expertise:

• Conflict prevention, management and resolution
• Mediation
• Peacekeeping
• Transitional justice
• Politics and international relations of Africa
  

Professional background:

• Political Affairs Officer and Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General, United Nations Mission in Liberia (2004-2007)
  
• Project Director, West Africa Office, International Crisis Group (2001-2004)
• Research Fellow, Conflict, Security & Development Group, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London (1999-2001)
• Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (1998-1999)

Languages:

• English (native)
• French (basic)