Lauren Van Metre

Dr. Van Metre (LinkedIn – X) is President and CEO of Women in International Security (WIIS) and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, where she has written several issue briefs on the war and its impacts on Ukrainian politics and society. She is also a lecturer at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Dr. Van Metre has worked on major policy initiatives at the Pentagon, the State Department, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). She has published frequently on issues of peace, fragility and violence, including, most recently,  The War on Nonprofits in Lawfare;  False Promises:  The Authoritarian Development Models of China and Russia and The Trip from Donbas: Ukraine’s Pressing Need to Defend its Veterans for the Atlantic Council; and, Voices from the Frontlines of Democracy in Ukraine published in Just Security.