Peter Linnér brings over 25 years of experience in international development, peacebuilding and humanitarian affairs with a strong emphasis on the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. His focus throughout his career has been on the UN and specifically on UN reform and effectiveness. He spent 10 years working in various positions in the United Nations system and another 15 years of combined experience from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most of it in partnership with the UN institutions, managing and financing UN programmes. Peter Linnér holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and another master’s degree in Democracy Development from Uppsala University in Sweden. He is since 2024 the Programme Director for UN Funding and Effectiveness at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.