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Camilla Riesenfeld joined the European Institute of Peace as Senior Advisor in 2025. She is an international expert on dialogue, mediation and peace process support with more than 15 years of experience in conflict and post-conflict settings across four continents. 

Her work spans Track 1, 1.5 and 2 processes and covers government agencies as well as forefront peace mediation NGOs. During her time as Swedish civil servent for FBA she served as lead facilitator and technical advisor to the Colombian government’s negotiation delegation in the peace talks with the ELN, having earlier advised the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace and the Sub-commission on gender mainstreaming during the negotiations with the FARC-EP. In Afghanistan she advised the government delegation on inclusion in the intra-Afghan talks and led the operationalisation of the EU-supported Afghan Women Leaders Forum.

She spent nine years at the Folke Bernadotte Academy, including as Acting Head of Unit for Peace Process Support. Her main focus has been dedicated to process design to strengthen civil society and women in peace processes and inclusive facilitation. She has worked with a number of formal and informal inlcusion mechanism and structures to increase the participation of civil society and women in peace negotiations, in Colombia, Afghanistan, Moldova, Ethiopia and Yemen. 

She holds a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University where she is also a committed standing guest practitioner lecturer. She works in English, Spanish and Swedish, and is based in Spain and Sweden.