Randa Slim is senior fellow and director of the Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues program at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, and a non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She works and publishes on regional and international issues of the Middle East with an emphasis on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.  

 

A former vice president of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, Slim has been a senior program advisor at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a guest scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, a program director at Resolve, and a program officer at the Kettering Foundation.

 

A former member of the Dartmouth Conference US-Russia regional conflicts taskforce, she was a member of the US-Russia mediator team in the Inter-Tajik Dialogue (1992-2000) and participated in the design and implementation of several peace-building initiatives in the Ferghana Valley (2000-2006).

 

Since 2004, she has convened Track 1.5-2.0 dialogues focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, U.S.-Russia and U.S.-Turkey bilateral relations, and regional cooperation frameworks. Slim also worked on the UN-mediated negotiations in Yemen as a consultant with the office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen (2015-2016).