Miriam Anderson is Associate Professor of Global Politics at Toronto Metropolitan University and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2022-2026). She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Politics and International Studies) and both an MA (Political Science) and a BA (International Relations) from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Anderson researches non-state actors in international security, specializing in women’s participation in peace processes and in post-war politics. She has conducted fieldwork in Burundi, Kenya, Northern Ireland and Rwanda.

Dr. Anderson is the author of Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2017). Her work has also been published in various edited volumes and journals, including International Studies Review, Global Studies Quarterly, Politics & Gender, and International Negotiation. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security (LSE); Institute for African Studies (Elliot School for International Affairs, George Washington University); Institute of Development Policy and Management, (University of Antwerp); and at the School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia University).