Dirk Druet

Dirk Druet is a researcher, policy adviser and strategist on multilateral peace and security interventions. He is a former official of the United Nations Departments of Peace Operations and Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, where he led policy initiatives at Headquarters on asymmetric warfare, intelligence, technology and conflict prevention in authoritarian regimes.

Dirk has served with UN operations and human rights organizations in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Kenya and has advised UN peace and humanitarian operations across Africa and the Middle East. In 2023, he served as the Senior Technical Adviser to a high-level panel of eminent peacebuilders undertaking a review of Kenya’s peacebuilding architecture. Currently, he advises the UN Department of Peace Operations on strategies to counter mis- and disinformation. Dirk is an Adjunct Professor at the Max Bell School for Public Policy at McGill University and is a Non-resident Fellow at the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations of the International Peace Institute in New York, where he conducts research on the protection of civilians in armed conflict and peace operations.

Dirk takes an inclusive, discursive approach to political and policy dialogue, and is an experienced moderator and convenor. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in International Relations from Carleton University and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

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