Ivan Briscoe Senior Director for Policy United Kingdom Please submit all media inquiries to [email protected] and [email protected] or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role As Crisis Group’s senior director for policy, Ivan works with regional and cross-cutting programs to develop and promote the organisation’s analysis and prescriptions. He previously worked from 2016 to 2024 as the program director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Professional Background Ivan Briscoe joined Crisis Group in June 2016, and has worked on Latin American politics, conflict and crime since 1996. Before joining Crisis Group, Ivan worked as a senior research fellow in the Clingendael Institute of the Netherlands and in the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) in Spain, where he specialised in the study of illicit networks in Latin America, the political economy of fragile states and new forms of armed violence.Prior to that, he worked for over a decade as a journalist and editor in Argentina, France and Spain, where he edited the English edition of El PaĂs. He has carried out fieldwork-based research in various Latin American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, as well as several African countries, and has written for numerous media outlets. He graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honour’s Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, studied as a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and also holds a Master’s Degree in Development from the Complutense University of Madrid. In The News 18 Jan 2024 Political misrule in Ecuador paled in comparison to what you saw … in Peru, and now Ecuador seems far worse off than Peru and Colombia in terms of basic human security. Miami Herald Ivan Briscoe Senior Director for Policy 14 Feb 2023 [Nicaraguan President Ortega] would prefer to revert to a steady, low-level authoritarian government in which there are perhaps none of the more visible forms of abuses b... Los Angeles Times Ivan Briscoe Senior Director for Policy Latest Updates Event Recording 30 November 2023 Mexico: Women’s Rise in Organised Crime Op-Ed / Latin America & Caribbean 04 October 2023 Ecuador’s Descent Into Chaos Event Recording / Latin America & Caribbean 13 July 2023 Dilemas del estado de excepciĂłn en Honduras (Evento Online, 13 de Julio, 2023) Event Recording / Global 29 November 2022 The Impact of the Midterms on U.S. Foreign Policy (Online event, 28 November 2022) Podcast / Latin America & Caribbean 17 December 2021 Can the U.S. Address Migration’s “Root Causes” in Central America? Op-Ed / Latin America & Caribbean 17 December 2020 A Bargain Worth Making? Bukele and The Gangs of El Salvador Load more