Renata Dwan has more than two decades’ experience of multilateral policymaking. As Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy on Digital and Emerging Technologies, she led support to the negotiation of the Global Digital Compact. She directed the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), initiating new programmes on conflict and technology, and led major UN-wide reform initiatives as Chief of UN Peacekeeping Policy and Best Practices. She served in Afghanistan, DRC, Haiti, Mali and Syria and advised the EU on crisis management. Outside international organisations, Renata was Deputy Director of Chatham House, overseeing the institute’s research agenda and programmes, and Director of the Armed Conflict programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). She has a D.Phil, M.Phil and B.A. from the University of Oxford.