Jago
Salmon

Dr Jago Salmon leads and oversees the delivery of a coherent, high impact ODI-wide agenda on International Peace and Security. He brings with him 17 years of experience and extensive networks in the peacebuilding and governance fields, having operated at political, policy and operational levels, in various United Nations roles, both at headquarters and at country offices. Co-author of the highly influential report ‘Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict (World Bank, 2018), until March 2024, Jago served as the head of the United Nations Coordination Office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he supported the United Nations response to COVID-19.

Between 2015 and 2019, he was a senior policy and program advisor at the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Support Office in New York, leading partnerships with international financial institutions. More recently he has supported United Nations Deputy Representatives of the Secretary-General in the Central African Republic and Haiti.

Jago has previously led interagency planning and response initiatives in the Central African Republic (2016), Liberia (2017), Zimbabwe (2018), and Burkina Faso (2019). Previously, as a public sector governance advisor with the UN in New York and Geneva, he led UNDP’s Payment Programme for Ebola Response Workers in West Africa during the 2014/15 crisis and supported statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, CAR, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. Fluent in English, French, German, Italian, and with working knowledge of Arabic, Jago is also a non-resident fellow at the Centre for International Cooperation at NYU and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In 2020, he curated the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.