Chloé Lewis

Dr Chloé Lewis is a Senior Research Associate with the Global Security Programme and co-leads a study on cross-border military wives in the Ugandan-DRC borderlands funded by the XCEPT Research Fund. She was previously a Research Fellow with the Minerva Global Security Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Working with the Minerva team, she helped lead fieldwork in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and Latin America, examining illicit flows across contested cross-border spaces. More recently she has joined Equimundo, an organisation which works to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence.

Before joining the Blavatnik School, Chloé was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London and a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub. Chloé’s independent and collaborative research focuses primarily on the gender dynamics of armed conflict, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Committed to working across policy and practice, Chloé has collaborated with the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, the World Bank, the International Rescue Committee, Tearfund, the OSCE, and the UK Ministry of Defence. Working with a fantastic team, she is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Masculinities, Conflict and Peacebuilding.