Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate at CSIS, where she works on renewable energy, the Americas, civil-military relations, and post-conflict reconstruction. A former codirector of the PCR Project, she has written extensively on security-sector reform in conflict states, economic development in postwar societies, the role of the United Nations in peace operations, and energy security. She has served as the director of peace, security, and human rights at the UN Foundation and has held senior positions in the U.S. government at USAID and the Bureau for Humanitarian Response, as well as at the World Bank’s Post Conflict Unit. An adviser to the UN Mission in Haiti and holder of adjunct faculty appointments at American University and Georgetown University, Mendelson Forman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the advisory boards of Women in International Security and the Latin American Security Network, RESDAL. She holds a J.D. from Washington College of Law at American University, a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Washington University, St. Louis, and a master’s of international affairs, with a certificate of Latin America studies, from Columbia University in New York. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.