Sophie Rutenbar

Sophie is a Visiting Scholar with the Prevention, Peacebuilding and Protracted Crises Program of NYU's Center for International Cooperation, as well as a non-resident fellow with the Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Program. Previously, Sophie worked for the UN for a decade, most recently as the Planning Officer for the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Before that, she worked at United Nations headquarters in a variety of roles, including with the Policy Planning Team of the Department of Peace Operations, the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises, and an initiative to strengthen the supply chain for all United Nations presences around the world. Before joining the UN, she worked in Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thailand and Zambia.

Through the Marshall Scholarship, she received master’s degrees in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London and Human Rights from the London School of Economics, and she was a Eugene McDermott Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas. A Truman Scholar, she previously served as co-president of the board of the Truman Scholars Association. She was a recipient of a 2023-2024 International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.