Teresa Whitfield is the Director of the Policy and Mediation Division at the UNDPPA. She is Non-Resident Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), and has been senior advisor to the president of the International Crisis Group since January 2015. While a fellow at New York University ’s Center on International Cooperation from 2008 to 2014, she served as a senior advisor to the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Previously, she was director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council and spent five years as an official of the UN’s Department of Political Affairs.