Adam Day

Biography

Adam Day is an Associate Fellow at Conflict, Security and Development Research Group (CSDRG) at King's and Head of Programmes at the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research in New York. For more than a decade he served in UN peace operations, including as Senior Political Advisor to the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in political roles in the Middle East, Sudan, South Sudan and in UN Headquarters. Prior to the UN, Adam worked for Human Rights Watch, Open Society Justice Initiative (Cambodia) and as a practicing litigator in New York. He is a recipient of the Leverhulme Scholarship “Interrogating Visions of a Post-Western World” at The Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London. His PhD thesis is supervised by Professor Mats Berdal, Director of CSDRG.