Erin McFee

Dr. Erin K. McFee is the Founder and President of the Corioli Institute, a global “think and do tank” focused on the reintegration of formerly armed actors (FAAs) and the promotion of security, resilience, and social cohesion in violence-affected communities. A political anthropologist by training, Dr. McFee has conducted extensive fieldwork in over a dozen countries since 2010—working with military veterans, ex-guerrillas, former insurgents, and reintegrating gang members across Latin America, Africa, the Arab region, and Eurasia. Her work spans from the frontlines of conflict to regional policy dialogues, supporting initiatives on the nexus of climate, human, and hard security. McFee is a recognized expert in Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and serves on the International Organization for Migration’s roster of specialists. Her research has informed international and national strategies on veteran reintegration in Ukraine, security sector reform in the Horn of Africa, and stabilization programs in the Middle East and North Africa. A UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Fulbright-Hays awardee, she holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago, an MBA from Simmons University, and executive certificates in Senior Executives in (Inter)national Security, Climate Policy, Leading Change, and Conflict and Fragility Management from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Geneva Graduate Institute.