Karin Landgren
Guest Author
Karin Landgren (Sweden) (@LandgrenKarin) joined Security Council Report in May 2018 as its Executive Director. Ms. Landgren served with the United Nations for over 35 years, and is the first woman to have headed three UN peace operations mandated by the Security Council. She was until 2015 a UN under-secretary-general and head of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), a peacekeeping operation, and led UNMIL’s response to Ebola through the height of the epidemic. Prior to this, she led two political missions, the UN Office in Burundi (BNUB) and the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN). She was UNICEF’s first chief of child protection, in 1998- 2008. While with UNHCR from 1980 to 1998, Ms. Landgren served in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Singapore, the Philippines, India, and at its headquarters in Geneva. She is a founding member of the Nordic Women Mediators’ Network, and has taught at Columbia University and Central European University. She is also on LinkedIn.
Articles by this author:
The United Nations in Hindsight: UN Security Council Sanctions
by Paul Romita, Erik Ramberg and Karin Landgren
Dec 1st, 2023
The United Nations in Hindsight: Financing African Union-Led Peace Support Operations
by Dawit Yirga, Paul Romita and Karin Landgren
Apr 2nd, 2023
The United Nations in Hindsight: The Long and Winding Road to Security Council Reform
by Shamala Kandiah Thompson, Karin Landgren and Paul Romita
Sep 30th, 2022
The United Nations in Hindsight: The Security Council and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Aug 31st, 2022