Dr Adam Day is Head of the Geneva Office of United Nations University Centre for Policy Research. He
oversees programming on peacebuilding, human rights, peacekeeping, climate-security, transitional
justice, and global governance, while also acting as co-lead on UNU-CPR’s support to the UN’s Our
Common Agenda.
Prior to joining UNU in 2017, Dr Day served for a decade in the UN, including as Senior Political Adviser
to MONUSCO (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in the UN Special Coordinator’s Office for
Lebanon, in the front offices of both UNMIS (Khartoum) and UNAMID (Darfur), and was a political officer
in both the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New
York. Dr Day also has substantial civil society experience, including with Human Rights Watch’s Justice
Program and for the Open Society Justice Initiative in Cambodia.
Dr Day was an international litigator in New York, where he worked pro bono for the Center for
Constitutional Rights on behalf of Guantanamo detainees in their suits against former US officials for
torture. He also supported the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The
Hague.
He is an adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and
a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London War Studies Department.