International Crisis Group
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Crisis Group's staff

Crisis Group's staff administer the organisation, develop policy proposals for consideration by the Board and promulgate Crisis Group analysis. They are professionals with extensive experience in advocacy, law, politics, the private sector, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and human rights.

Crisis Group posts open positions on its website: click here for more details.  We also offer a variety of unpaid internships; for more details visit our internships page.

Advocacy Offices


BRUSSELS HQ

Louise Arbour 
President & CEO

Nick Grono
Deputy President (Operations)

Donald Steinberg
Deputy President (Policy)

Helen Brewer
Vice-President (Finance and Administration)

Alain Deletroz
Vice-President (Europe)

Dana Drielsma
HR Generalist

Richard Atwood
Director of Research and Operations

Bilall Bahia
Senior Accountant

Olof Blomqvist
Online Editor

Amelia Branczik
Research Manager

Victoria Brereton
Research Analyst

Neil Campbell
EU Advocacy Manager  

Kate Carey
Executive Assistant to the President/
Board Liaison Officer

Casey Davison O'Brien
Fundraising Officer

Mark Freeman
Director of External Relations 

Melissa Haw
Fundraising Officer  

Clay Johnson
Director of Human Resources

Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos
Communications Officer

Maissa Khattab
Office Manager/Receptionist

Iskra Kirova
Research and EU Advocacy Officer

Bryony Lau
Assistant Editor

Pascal Offredo
IT & Operations Manager

Kjell Olsson
Publications Manager

Kim Patzwald
Fundraising Officer

Ahmed Reza
IT Support Officer

Joëlle Scutari
Senior Accountant (Budgets & Reporting)

Benedict Stainer
Publications Officer

Andrew Stroehlein
Communications Director

Charlotte Swinnen
Accountant



WASHINGTON DC

Mark Schneider
Senior Vice-President;
Special Adviser on Latin America

Jon Greenwald
Vice-President (Publications)

Kimberly Abbott
North America Communications Director

Ann Hollingsworth
Advocacy Officer/Middle East & North Africa Program Assistant

Jennifer Leonard
Washington Deputy Director

Marjorie Ligelis
Accountant

Rob Malley
Director of Middle East/North Africa Program

Yun Sun
China Analyst

Saman Wijesooriya
Office Manager



NEW YORK

Fabienne Hara
Vice-President (Multilateral Affairs)

Blair Blackwell
Director, Private Sector Initiatives (North America)

Carole Corcoran
General Counsel, Director of Special Projects and Corporate Secretary

Jonathan Lincoln
UN Advocacy Manager

Michael Shaikh 
Senior Analyst (Asia Program)

Heather Sonner
UN Advocacy Officer

Robert Templer
Director of Asia Program

Jacqueline Sindoni Beam
Office Manager



LONDON

Romit Jain
Director, Private Sector Initiatives (Europe)



MOSCOW

Igor Larine
Operations and Liaison Officer



BEIJING (liaison presence)

Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt
China Adviser/North East Asia Project Director 


 

Field Offices


AFRICA
(Nairobi office)

François Grignon
Director of Africa Program

Daniela Kroslak
Deputy Director of Africa Program

Central Africa - Nairobi

Arthur Kepel
Analyst

Guillaume Lacaille
Senior Analyst

Edward Dalby
Analyst 

Horn of Africa - Nairobi

EJ Hogendoorn
Horn of Africa Project Director

Fouad Hikmat
AU and Sudan Special Advisor

Rashid Abdi
Analyst

Zach Vertin
Analyst

West Africa - Dakar

Richard Moncrieff
West Africa Project Director

Nnamdi Kalu Obasi
Senior Analyst (based in Abuja)

Rinaldo Depagne
Senior Analyst (based in Ouagadougou)

Candida Borges
Office Manager

Mohamed Jalloh
Analyst

Southern Africa - Pretoria

Sydney Masamvu
Senior Analyst

Charlotte Larbuisson
Analyst (based in Nairobi)



ASIA

Central Asia - Bishkek

Paul Quinn-Judge
Central Asia Project Director/Russia Adviser

Saniya Sagnaeva
Senior Analyst

Vlad Galushko
Analyst

Nurjan Ernesova
Office Manager

South Asia - Islamabad

Samina Ahmed
South Asia Project Director

Shehryar Fazli
South Asia Regional Editor; Senior Analyst

Sophie Desoulieres
Analyst

Aly Zaman
Analyst

Zaib Barlas
South Asia Operations Manager

Ghulam Sakhi Darwish
Researcher

South Asia - Kabul

Candace Rondeaux
Senior Analyst

Arif Ammar
Office Manager; Research Assistant

South Asia - Colombo

Alan Keenan
Senior Analyst  

South Asia - Kathmandu

Rhoderick Chalmers
Senior Analyst;
South Asia Deputy Project Director

Jacob Rinck
Analyst

Pankaj Malla
Office Manager; Research Assistant 

South East Asia - Jakarta

Jim Della-Giacoma
South East Asia Project Director

Sidney Jones
Senior Adviser  

Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat
Analyst

Henri Myrttinen
Analyst

Cillian Nolan
Analyst

Mahlil Harahap
Office Manager

Eva Ratihandayani
Administrative and Finance Officer

North East Asia - Seoul

Daniel Pinkston
Deputy Project Director



EUROPE

Caucasus - Tbilisi

Lawrence Sheets
Caucasus Project Director

Dato Chochia
Office Manager/Researcher

Tabib Huseynov
Analyst (based in Baku)

Medea Turashvili
Analyst

Kosovo - Pristina

Marko Prelec
Balkans Project Director

Srdjan Djeric
Research Analyst

Naim Rashiti
Researcher/Office Manager

Bosnia - Sarajevo

Srecko Latal
Analyst

Turkey - Istanbul

Sabine Freizer
Director of Europe Program

Hugh Pope
Turkey/Cyprus Project Director

Didem Akyel
Office Manager/Research Assistant



LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
(Bogota office)

Markus Schultze-Kraft
Latin America Program Director

Mauricio Angel Morales
Senior Analyst

Nicolas Letts
Analyst

Esther Wegner
Office Manager/Research Assistant

Haiti - Port-au-Prince

Bernice Robertson
Senior Analyst

Pierre Hugue Michel
Project Assistant Officer



MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Middle East

Joost Hiltermann
Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa  

Peter Harling
Iraq, Syria and Lebanon Project Director (based in Damascus)

Robert Blecher
Senior Analyst

Frédéric Tellier
Senior Analyst

Loulouwa al-Rachid
Senior Analyst

Sahar Atrache
Analyst

Mongi Ben Abdennabi
Research Assistant

Nayef Al-Yasin
Arabic Translator

Suheir Freitekh
Office Manager