Dr Adam Day

Dr Adam Day is Head of the Geneva Office of the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research. He oversees programming on peacebuilding, human rights, peacekeeping, climate security, sanctions, and global governance, while also acting as co-lead on UNU-CPR’s support to the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. Prior to joining UNU in 2017, Dr Adam Day served for a decade in the UN, including as Senior Political Adviser to MONUSCO (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in the UN Special Coordinator’s Office for Lebanon, in the front offices of both UNMIS (Khartoum) and UNAMID (Darfur), and was a political officer in both the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York. Dr Adam Day also has substantial civil society experience, including with Human Rights Watch’s Justice Programme and the Open Society Justice Initiative in Cambodia. Dr Adam Day was an international litigator in New York, where he also worked pro bono for the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Guantanamo detainees in their suits against former US officials for torture. He supported the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Dr Adam Day has published widely in the fields of State-building, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, mediation, conflict resolution, human rights, rule of law, transitional justice, climate security, the UN Security Council, and global governance.