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Chrissie Hirst

A British citizen, Chrissie Hirst graduated from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and is currently undertaking further post-graduate study in conflict resolution with Coventry University.  She has worked in the field of conflict prevention, security and arms control since 1997 for a variety of different civil society organisations in the UK and abroad. Work experience in the Balkans started in 2001, involving positions with the London-based think tank Saferworld and a year's secondment to the UNDP-Stability Pact SEE Clearing House for the Control of Small Arms & Light Weapons (SEESAC) in Belgrade, with work focused on SALW control and related policy and civil society capacity-building activities. Chrissie then moved to cross-border peacebuilding work with the EastWest Institute, managing the GPKT project (Kosovo-southern Serbia-fYR Macedonia), and supporting regional programming, for nearly three years. Since then she has focused on developing senior management and policy experience through positions with DACAAR, a DRC-affiliated Danish NGO in Afghanistan, as a senior manager with strategic and policy responsibilities, and with CARE International in Georgia, managing a large rural development project and leading a peacebuilding feasibility assessment. She speaks intermediate Serbian and French and is the author of several publications on small arms and conflict prevention.