Lesley Anne Warner

Lesley Anne Warner is a Professional Staff Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she serves as the principal adviser to the Ranking Member on matters relating to sub-Saharan Africa.

She was previously a Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University, where she directed the only open source strategic-to-tactical level analysis of the Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership. Following that assignment, she deployed to Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa in Djibouti to conduct mission analysis for the draft CJTF-HOA Campaign Plan and map the Joint, Interagency, International, and Multinational (JIIM) engagement in the region.

Ms. Warner holds a M.A. in Security Studies from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a B.A. in International Relations from Carleton College, where she was awarded the Boren National Security Education Program Scholarship and a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She is currently a PhD candidate in War Studies at King’s College London, where her dissertation focuses on the process of integrating armed groups into statutory security frameworks during war-to-peace transitions.

Ms. Warner is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project, an International Career Advancement Program (ICAP) Fellow, and a member of the Editorial Board of Parameters, the U.S. Army War College Quarterly. She blogs at Lesley on Africa and you can follow her on Twitter @lesley_warner.