As Program Director for Latin America and Caribbean, Renata Segura oversees the production of reports and other outputs, as well as advocacy and outreach. From January 2020 to March 2024, she was the Deputy Director at the same program.

Colombian by birth, Renata has been based in New York for more than 20 years. She started her career as a reporter on Colombian TV and a nationally-distributed magazine, before working at the Jesuit-led NGO CINEP in Bogotá. She got her Ph.D. in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York in 2007. Between 2002 and 2019, Renata worked at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, a program of the Social Science Research Council. Her most recent position there was associate director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. In this capacity she led over a hundred research projects and workshops examining challenges to democratic governance and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean, on topics including drug policy, climate change, food resilience and gender. She has published material on constitutionalism, conflict prevention & resolution, drug policy, mining & diaspora politics, among other issues.

• Latin America
• Conflict
• Constitutionalism

• Spanish
• English

• Haiti needs Help. Foreign Troops Might be the Least Bad Option, Foreign Affairs, December 2022
• Made in Havana: How Colombia and the FARC Decided to End the War, International Peace Institute, February 2017