Jonathan Papoulidis

Vice President, External Engagement – Food for the Hungry

Fragile States Working Group Co-Chair

Jonathan Papoulidis is Co-Chair of the Scaling Community of Practice’s Working Group on Scaling in Fragile States, which he co-founded nearly a decade ago. He is Vice-President of External Engagement at Food for the Hungry where he provides leadership on the Agency’s global policy engagements, convenings and partnerships with the public and private sector. He previously served with the United Nations, including in Indonesia as Chief of Policy and Programs in the Office of the UN Recovery Coordinator and then as UN Coordinator and Special Advisor for Aceh and Nias and UN Security Coordinator for Sumatra. From 2004-2006, he served in the UN peacekeeping mission in post-war Liberia as advisor to the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Governance and Recovery. Before that, he was the senior UN OCHA representative in Turkey, preparing for the 2003 Iraq humanitarian response. Prior to these postings, Papoulidis served at UN headquarters in New York, focusing on protection of civilians, conflict prevention, private sector partnerships and post-crisis transitional planning. He serves on advisory boards for the Global Resilience Partnership and Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet. He has been a World Projects Fellow at Columbia University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and the Center for Refugee Studies, York University. He has written for the Brookings Institution, Harvard International Review, Yale Journal of International Affairs, DevEx, New Humanitarian and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

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