David Andersson Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

Co-founder of PACE Global Strategies, a mission-driven international consulting firm. It provides policy guidance, analysis and communications assistance to help clients engage with national and multilateral institutions on political risk, conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustainable development. Clientele including global NGOs and bi- and multilateral development agencies; Long-Term Agreements signed with UNICEF and SIDA.

New York, United States; Bangkok, Thailand

Consultant to develop the UN Women Asia-Pacific Regional Office’s Strategic Note (2022-2025)

New York, United States

Evaluated strategic partnerships between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and five international peacebuilding and conflict prevention NGOs.

New York, United States

Strategic Advisor for UNDP's governance team at headquarters on key governance issues, as well as SDG 16 and its components of peace, justice and inclusion. Provided analyses and guidance in the development of UNDP-specific strategies, policy offers and governance programming.

Author of the UN Cooperation Framework for South Sudan - a strategic framework outlining vision, programmatic priorities and sustainable development objectives for 2019 - 2021 period - as well as the analyses that underpinned it. Led strategic prioritization process with UN agency heads, and authored South Sudan's Inaugural SDG report (2017).

Author of numerous evaluations, stock takes and strategic analyses for the UN-World Bank Partnership Trust Fund, including a review of the broader UN- World Bank partnership in conflict-affected environments.

Washington Dc

Author of evaluations, analytical reports and knowledge products for the World Bank's State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF) and other entities under the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group. Co-author of the SPF Monitoring Dashboard - a tool to systematically track portfolio and project performance in over 100 state and peacebuilding initiatives worldwide.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Lead UN researcher and co-author of the Republic of Sierra Leone's 2014 National Fragility Assessment. Led district-level consultations across the country, appraising the state of security, political and economic institutions.

Policy adviser and lead author of a publication on extractive industry development in conflict-affected countries for the g7+ group of fragile states, on behalf of the Overseas Development Institute

Washington D.C.

Analyst at the World Bank Institute's (WBI) Fragile and Conflict-Affected states program and lead designer of of WBI's flagship e-learning course on violence, conflict and fragility - taught to clients and civil society representatives globally.

Washington Dc

Core team member, analyst and contributor to the 2011 World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development - the World Bank's annual flagship report. https://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDRS/Resources/WDR2011_Full_Text.pdf

New York City

Advocate and analyst at Crisis Group's UN office where I focused on situations of concern to the Security Council and developed policy proposals and recommendations to influence key UN member state positions. Advised Crisis Group's management and field staff on UN-specific issues and advocacy approaches.

Independent consultant for numerous multilateral agencies, think tanks and NGOs and including International Crisis Group and the UN High Commission for Refugees.

Ba (Hons), Politics, International Development

Msc, Human Rights, Complex Emergencies

Political Science