Dylan Mathews is CEO of Peace Direct having joined the organisation in 2015. He also holds a supervisory role on Peace Direct’s Netherlands Board of Trustees.
His commitment to supporting local organisations in the global south spans almost twenty years, during which time he has worked for a range of peacebuilding, international development and humanitarian organisations.
While working for the peacebuilding think tank Oxford Research Group, he authored ‘War Prevention Works’ which profiled the role of non-state actors in conflict prevention and resolution – a publication that helped launch Peace Direct in 2004. He is the editor of ‘Working with Conflict 2’ a practical toolkit for local peacebuilders, published in 2020. Dylan is the Chair of CIVICUS, the world’s largest civil society alliance.
