Naureen Chowdhury Fink is a Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute. She is currently the Executive Director of The Soufan Center, and was previously Senior Policy Adviser on Counterterrorism and Sanctions at the United Kingdom’s Mission to the United Nations, leading representation and negotiations in the Security Council and General Assembly. Prior to that worked with UN Women and the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED).

Before joining the United Nations, she was head of research and analysis for the Global Center on Cooperative Security, leading on the multilateral security portfolio focused on the international response to terrorism and violent extremism, armed conflict, and political instability, and the role of international and regional actors. In doing so, she built on earlier work at the International Peace Institute, where she developed the portfolio on counterterrorism and transnational security threats where she has also been an active contributor to IPI’s Global Observatory.

She has developed and implemented CT and CVE projects across the globe, in regions as diverse as West Africa and South Asia, and published widely on counterterrorism, gender, the UN, and deradicalization efforts. She has published widely, with articles and book chapters focused on counterterrorism, and international security responses, and regularly briefs senior officials, experts, and the media on these issues.