Ivan Briscoe

Ivan Briscoe

Program Director, Latin America and Caribbean
Bogotá, Colombia

Crisis Group Role

Ivan Briscoe joined Crisis Group in June 2016 as Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has worked on Latin American politics, conflict and crime since 1996. Before joining Crisis Group, Ivan worked as a senior research fellow in the Clingendael Institute of the Netherlands and in the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) in Spain, where he specialised in the study of illicit networks in Latin America, new forms of armed violence and the effects of inequality.

Prior to that, he worked for over a decade as a journalist and editor in Argentina, France and Spain, where he edited the English edition of El País. He has carried out fieldwork-based research in various Latin American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, and has written for numerous media in the region and in Europe. He graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honour’s Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, studied as a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and also holds a Master’s Degree in Development from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Professional Background

  • Senior Research Fellow, Conflict Research Unit, Clingendael Institute (2009-2016)
  • Senior Researcher, Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) (2006-2009)
  • Editor, English language edition of El País (2004-2006)
  • Reporter, English language edition of El País (2002-2004)
  • Reporter, UNESCO Courier magazine (2000-2001)
  • Reporter, Buenos Aires Herald (1996-1999)
  • Researcher, Demos (1994-1996)

In The News

18 Led 2024
Political misrule in Ecuador paled in comparison to what you saw … in Peru, and now Ecuador seems far worse off than Peru and Colombia in terms of basic human security. Miami Herald

Ivan Briscoe

Program Director, Latin America and Caribbean
14 Úno 2023
[Nicaraguan President Ortega] would prefer to revert to a steady, low-level authoritarian government in which there are perhaps none of the more visible forms of abuses b... Los Angeles Times

Ivan Briscoe

Program Director, Latin America and Caribbean

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