Nathalie Gendre

Nathalie is a Swiss attorney-at-law and political scientist with over 15 years of experience in peacebuilding, women’s rights, and transitional justice. Prior to joining DCAF, she served as Senior DDRR Program Coordinator for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, coordinating IOM’s country-level DDRR programming efforts and contributing to IOM’s Peacebuilding Unit’s advances in issues linked to PVE, Foreign Terrorist Fighters related to designated/sanctioned violent extremist groups and transitional justice.

A former ICRC delegate, Nathalie has experience in humanitarian work and she has been active in conflict and post-conflict settings as a researcher and freelance consultant working with government authorities, international and regional organizations and international development agencies.

Nathalie is the author and co-author of various publications on transitional justice (reparations), DDR and gender. She is fluent in French, German, English and Spanish, and has a basic knowledge of Italian and Arabic.