Kevin Melton

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Senior Advisor, Resilience & CVE, International Peace & Security Institute Kevin is an international development specialist, foreign policy analyst, and entrepreneur with more than ten years of experience in post-conflict and international human security matters throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. His experience stems from managing and coordinating a variety of donor-funded foreign aid projects focused on wider conflict sensitive development including countering violence and extremism, post-conflict economic development, local governance capacity building, and governance and social cohesion. Over the last few years, he has also helped train and lead civilian and military teams and provided policy guidance and strategic and operational analysis to enhance civil-military planning efforts with bilateral and multilateral organizations, donors and embassies. Kevin previously served as a member of IPSI’s Board of Directors and is a Truman National Security Fellow and Rotary Peace Fellow. He holds a Master degree from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor degree from James Madison University. He grew up in Fairfax Country VA and speaks fluent French.