As Crisis Group’s senior director for policy, Ivan works with regional and cross-cutting programs to develop and promote the organisation’s analysis and prescriptions. He previously worked from 2016 to 2024 as the program director for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ivan Briscoe joined Crisis Group in June 2016, and 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, the political economy of fragile states and new forms of armed violence.

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, as well as several African countries, and has written for numerous media outlets. 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.