Anne Connell

Anne Martin Connell has a background in gender, conflict, and security issues with a regional focus in the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she works with leading scholars to analyze how elevating the status of women and girls advances U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Prior to joining the Council, Connell worked as a research analyst on Arab media and civil society at the German Institute for Media and Communications Policy. From 2011-12 she was a Fulbright Fellow to Germany, collaborating with local Turkish and Middle Eastern civil society organizations on programming to counter radicalization and improve community integration and young women’s civic participation. She was an executive assistant from 2011-12 at the public health non-profit organization Partners In Health, working primarily on healthcare provision in complex emergencies. She completed a traineeship at Berlin-based Democracy Reporting International and was a Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Summer Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Connell holds a B.A. from Bates College and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School. Her  report “Inclusive Security in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations: an analysis of UNSCR 1325 as a tool to strengthen women’s participation” won the Harvard Kennedy School’s 2015 Jane Mansbridge Award recognizing an outstanding research paper focused on gender and foreign policy.

Twitter: @AnneMartinConn