Council on State Fragility

The Council on State Fragility provides strategic and policy leadership to the State Fragility initiative. The Council advances new ideas and evidence-based thinking in global fora and works to build consensus on new approaches to address state fragility among major international institutions and countries affected by conflict and fragility. The Council is composed of eminent persons who have a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges in addressing different dimensions of state fragility.

The Council’s website can be accessed here.

Council members:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Co-chair), Former President, Liberia

David Cameron (Co-chair), Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Donald Kaberuka (Co-chair), Special Envoy, African Union’s Peace Fund

Amat Al Alim Alsoswa, Former Minister of Human Rights, Yemen

Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Special Envoy, UN

Karin von Hippel, Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Paul Collier, Director, IGC

Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

President Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy for Africa, UN

Minouche Shafik, Director, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Tidjane Thiam, Special Envoy, African Union