Sophie Rutenbar

Sophie Rutenbar, Non-Resident Fellow, NYU Center on International Cooperation, Sophie is a researcher, writer and analyst in the field of international peace and security, with a particular focus on Haiti. She is a non-resident fellow with the Prevention, Peacebuilding and Protracted Crises Program of NYU's Center for International Cooperation, as well as a non-resident fellow with the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. A former UN staff member, Sophie worked in Port-au-Prince with the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) between 2019 and 2023 in the office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General. Her tenure at the UN also includes contributing to the Policy Planning Team of the UN Department of Peace Operations (DPO), where she worked extensively on UN peace and security reform processes, both from 2017-19 and as the inaugural US-sponsored associate expert within the UN Secretariat from 2013-2015. In addition to the UN, she has worked in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America doing policy, research, planning, best practices, and monitoring and evaluation for non-governmental organizations, USAID, and the UK Department for International Development. Through the Marshall Scholarship, she received master’s degrees in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London and Human Rights from the London School of Economics.