Margaret (Maggie) Williams is the Associate Director of SDG16+ at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) on the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team.
She brings over a decade of experience in development, peacebuilding and prevention, access to justice, human rights, and multilateral affairs. Committed to the realization of more peaceful, just, and inclusive societies, she has focused on SDG16+ action and advocacy for the past five years, building diverse, multi-stakeholder partnerships in support of SDG16+ internationally while highlighting the policy and tangible practice of SDG16 and its interlinkages across the 2030 Agenda at national and sub-national levels. She has worked and collaborated extensively with governments across the Global South and Global North, grassroots and civil society organizations, intergovernmental organizations, the United Nations (UN), and other multilaterals, as well as private sector actors and foundations.
Prior to an SDG16-specific lens, she worked on issues related to state-society relations, geopolitical analysis, gender, and youth, including at the community level, running or supporting youth and women’s economic empowerment programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Europe. Based in New York, she has lived and worked in Tunisia, Palestine, Cyprus, and Greece, with additional experience in Georgia, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Uganda.
She holds a Master of Arts degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
