Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is the Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and spearheads the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL), a network of independent women-led organisations active in over 40 countries.

With nearly three decades of experience working on conflicts, crises, violent extremism, and peacebuilding, she has served as the first Senior Expert on Gender and Inclusion on the UN Standby Team of Mediation Experts, supporting peace processes in contexts including Somalia, Libya, Syria and Sudan, as well as serving as a Professor at Columbia University since 2018 and Director at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

She is the author of Civil War, Civil Peace (Pluto Press, 1998) and Women Building Peace: What They Do, Why It Matters (Rienner, 2007). She was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to international peacebuilding and women’s rights.