Hilde F. Johnson
Hilde F. Johnson joined the Institute as Senior Advisor in January 2020, after more than 20 years of high-level leadership experience in peacemaking, peacebuilding and development.
As Norway’s Minister of International Development (1997-2000 & 2001-2005) she engaged in multiple peacebuilding efforts across the world and played a key role in the Sudan peace negotiations (CPA, 2005). She was the SRSG of UNMISS in South Sudan 2011 – 2014 and served on the UN SG’s High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, HIPPO 2014-2015. As Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, she led the organisation’s humanitarian operations and crisis response (2007-2011).
She has been a visiting fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI) 2014-2015, and at the Norwegian Peace Research Institute (PRIO, 2019), and since 2020 has supported EIP’s Great Lakes and Southern Africa team.
Academically, she is the author of three books on Sudan, South Sudan, and peace processes and has had a distinguished political career as elected MP 1993-2001 and as Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Party of Norway (2016-2019).