About Us
David Andersson brings a breadth of experience managing programs in, and advising senior international policy makers on, conflict, fragility and international engagement in crisis settings. Before co-founding PACE Global Strategies, he consulted extensively with the World Bank and United Nations, providing strategic analyses and evaluations of the UN-World Bank Partnership in crisis-affected situations. He contributed to the development of the UN-World Bank joint partnership framework, and has led numerous national-level assessments, including South Sudan’s inaugural SDG report and the UN Country Team’s forthcoming cooperation framework with the government. This work builds on his tenure as a core-team member of the landmark 2011 World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development produced by the World Bank, where he also devised the State and Peacebuilding Funds ‘Monitoring Dashboard’ to evaluate the performance of peacebuilding projects worldwide. Mr. Andersson previously worked for International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C. and New York, where he helped lead the organization’s UN research and advocacy efforts, notably during crises in Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He earned his M.A. at the London School of Economics and holds degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Lund University in Sweden.
Jennifer Leonard brings a deep understanding of policy issues, stakeholder interests, and levers of advocacy and influence to PACE Global Strategies, which she co-founded after fifteen years with the International Crisis Group, an organization she helped transform into a global policy player. As Washington Director, and previously as Deputy Director, she drove efforts to professionalize and adapt Crisis Group in its mission to understand, prevent and resolve deadly conflict. She designed and implemented strategies to promote the organization’s unique brand of field-generated analysis, translating policy into action for top decision makers in the U.S. and internationally. In addition to counseling successive executive leadership, she led field research, authored publications, and devised targeted media strategies to influence global policymakers. Before joining Crisis Group, Ms. Leonard served as special advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration on non-proliferation policy. She has been an Associate at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, a regular contributor to the OSCE’s election-related activities, and has conducted fieldwork throughout the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, and south Asia. She is a Life Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and earned an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and B.A. from Connecticut College.
