Randa Slim is an independent consultant and political analyst based in Washington, DC and Beirut, Lebanon. In 2009, she was a senior program advisor at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a guest scholar at the United States Institute of Peace. She is the former vice president of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue where she directed IISD’s Middle East Initiative including a 4-yr Iraq unofficial dialogue involving Iraqi parliamentarians, tribal leaders and representative of Iraqi opposition groups. She is co-founder of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy, a group of scholars and civic activists from 8 Arab countries. For eight years, Slim was a program officer at the Kettering Foundation working with civic organizations around the world promoting democratic deliberation. She has worked extensively as a practitioner in Track II dialogue and peace-building processes, active in the Middle East and Central Asia. She has consulted for a number of organizations including USAID, UNDP, and the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs. She taught conflict resolution studies at Royal Roads University in Canada and the American University of Beirut. She is the author of several studies and articles on mediation, conflict prevention, post-conflict peace-building and public diplomacy. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Peace and Security Program, a board member of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue and the Project on Middle East Democracy. She earned her BS and MA degrees at the American University of Beirut and completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina. Currently, she is completing a book mapping Hezbollah’s political evolution (1985-2009).

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