Yvonne Lodico is the Co-Founder and Director of Grace Initiative Global, overseeing programmes in peace-building, justice, governance, and sustainable development. She developed and oversaw a refugee resettlement programme with the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her United Nations experience includes roles in the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, peacekeeping in Africa and Asia-Pacific, and Director of a UN Headquarters office. She served as Special Advisor to the Secretary-General and launched the "Together Let's Strengthen Democracy" initiative. Ms. Lodico is a Yale Divinity School scholar, an award-winning author and presenter on peace-building and humanitarian topics, and holds a JD, LL.M. (Humanitarian Law) NYU, MIA, Columbia, and MAR Yale.
