Wendy Williams

Associate Research Fellow

Wendy WilliamsWendy Williams’ research focuses on forced displacement and migration, violent extremist organizations, illicit financial flows, international human rights and humanitarian law, military professionalism, and the rule of law.

Before joining the Africa Center, Ms. Williams worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, as an attorney in its Global Securities Group, counseling international investors on public and private capital markets, negotiating legal agreements with U.S. and foreign entities, and conducting research on rules and regulations regarding capital market transactions. At the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, she served as a policy advisor on population movements, including conducting and publishing a survey of migration flows and its causes and impacts within Europe and Central Asia. She also provided situational analysis for the organization’s West Africa region.

Ms. Williams received a B.A. from Columbia College at Columbia University in New York and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Areas of Expertise

Forced displacement and migration; violent extremist organizations; international human rights and humanitarian law

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