Lesley Anne Warner

Lesley Anne Warner, PhD (Bluesky – LinkedIn – Substack) is a visiting scholar with the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was previously a senior U.S. government official who served at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department and as a congressional staffer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She specializes in conflict, stabilization, and political transitions, and is the author of Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions: South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups, 2006-13 (Routledge, 2023).