Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

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Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (@ChdeJOudraat) has been President of Women in International Security (WIIS) since February 2013. She has held senior positions at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) North America; U.S. Institute of Peace; Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC; and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.

De Jonge Oudraat areas of specialization are: women, peace and security, gender, international organizations, arms control and disarmament, terrorism and countering violent extremism, peacekeeping, use of force, economic sanctions, U.S.-European relations. She has published widely on these issues. Her most recent publication is The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century (Routledge, 2020).

De Jonge Oudraat received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Paris II (Panthéon). She is a Dutch and US national.