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Serena Olgiati is an expert in human security and armed violence. Her work focuses on measuring and monitoring armed violence, in an effort to advance policy and advocacy efforts that promote evidence-based responses to same.\n

Now an independent professional, most recently she led policy development for the UK based\xa0Action on Armed Violence, as their Head of Advocacy.\xa0Serena previously worked for the\xa0International Campaign to Ban Landmines, representing this organisation in Colombia and for the\xa0Cluster Munition Coalition\xa0where she has been actively engaged in the negotiations of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.\xa0Serena also helped found the\xa0Global Alliance on Armed Violence\xa0and has supported the creation of local and regional networks; such as the Nigeria Working Group on Armed Violence and the Latin American network\xa0SEHLAC.

She holds a master in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

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