CGHR Practitioner Series: Markus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser (DFID)

Please join us for an engaging discussion with an experienced professional on their work, followed by drinks afterwards with the speaker.

MARCUS LENZEN has been working for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) since 2009. Marcus started working as conflict advisor and is currently senior conflict adviser. He leads DFID’s policy on building peaceful states societies. Previous DFID roles include lead Conflict Adviser in Nigeria and policy lead and Humanitarian Counsellor at the UK’s Mission to Geneva.

Prior to DFID, MARCUS LENZEN worked for UNDP and GIZ/DED on peacebuilding and transitional justice. MARKUS LENZEN was also a Derek Brewer visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge between 2013 and 2014. He has worked in several different countries, such as the Balkans, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Guatemala and Peru.

About the CGHR Practitioner Series

For those hoping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’, especially amidst a broad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can be loosely collected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Social Justice’, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanitarian Aid,’ the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic training, the kind provided by Cambridge University, is important but certainly not enough to prepare students for the transition into working in this sector. Through a mixture of substantive discussion, personal reflection and practical advice, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together high‐level experts working in these fields and creates a forum in which students and researchers can listen and ask questions about what this work actually involves, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas and challenges faced, and probe the skill set and experience needed to forge a career in these fields.

More about the CGHR Practitioner series: http://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/practitioner_series