Francesco Mancini

Francesco Mancini is Vice Dean (Executive Education) and Associate Professor in Practice at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). His work focuses on global governance, United Nations, conflict analysis and resolution. He regularly lectures at academic institutions and presents at conferences and to governments on international peace and security issues. He regularly appears on television news as commentator of current international affairs.

Francesco is also a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI), a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), a member of the Research Committee of the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) in Sidney, Australia, an Honorary Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute (MEI), an Associate Fellow at the Peace Informatics Lab of the Leiden University, Netherlands, and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Peacebuilding.

Before joining the LKY School of Public Policy, Francesco was Senior Director of Research at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York. Francesco focused on conflict prevention, mediation, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. Francesco has published extensively. His latest co-edited volume is The Management of UN Peacekeeping: Coordination, Learning, and Leadership in Peace Operations (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017). He conceived, designed, and edited the first and only Management Handbook for UN Field Missions in 2012.

Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he co-managed the Worldwide Security Initiative, a program designed to enhance international cooperation in addressing new security threats. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant at Group CRCI in France, Italy, and Morocco. Francesco earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, his hometown, and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he was awarded a fellowship within the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.