Dirk Druet

Dirk Druet is an Adjunct Professor at McGill University’s Max Bell School for Public Policy and a Non-resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations in New York. His work focuses on international peace and security interventions, with expertise in asymmetric warfare, technology, and conflict prevention in authoritarian regimes. He previously served as a UN official in the Departments of Peace Operations and Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, leading policy initiatives on intelligence in peacekeeping and conducting fieldwork in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Kenya.

• Education: BA (Hons) in Political Science and History from Carleton University (2005), MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
• Research affiliations: Affiliate Researcher at McGill’s Centre for International Peace and Security Studies.

His research emphasizes political and protection challenges in complex emergencies, including strategic reviews of peacekeeping operations and ethical frameworks for surveillance in conflict zones. He contributed to the 2017 policy framework for intelligence in UN peacekeeping and advised the Secretary-General’s Executive Committee on protection strategies in 2020.