Melanie Cohen Greenberg is president and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of 106 peace-building organizations working in 153 countries. Before joining AfP, she worked in philanthropy (president and founder of the Cypress Fund for Peace and Security, and Conflict Resolution program director at the Hewlett Foundation) and academia (associate director of the Center on International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS).