Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge

Senior Advisor
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit

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Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge is Senior Advisor within the Sub-Saharan Africa Unit. Having started his career working with Darfuri refuges in Tchad in the mid-2000s, he has held senior roles for over a decade at the intersection of diplomacy, humanitarian response, and peacebuilding. With experiences spanning academia, NGOs, Thinktanks and the United Nations system, in settings as diverse as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Caribbean region, his remit has included working on political dialogue and facilitating talks with armed groups in places as far apart as the Solomon Islands and Syria.

As Senior Advisor on Conflict and Access at the UN’s World Food Programme’s Eastern Africa Regional Bureau and as a Peace and Development Advisor with the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs in Ethiopia and New York, Kwesi played a key role in political analysis and mediation efforts. His work supported humanitarian and political missions during Ethiopia’s 2021 elections, the Tigray conflict and the resulting humanitarian emergency and more recently during the conflict in Sudan.

Kwesi holds a PhD in Anthropology from Durham University; a Master’s in African Studies from Yale University and a Diploma in History from the University of Guyana.