Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Executive Director
spawnday@globalr2p.org
@Savita_Pawnday

Savita Pawnday became Executive Director of the Global Centre in October 2021 after serving as Deputy Director for 10 years. Prior to joining the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, she was a research associate at the Program on States and Security at the Ralph Bunche Institute for Interna

tional Studies. Savita has worked in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi with Catholic Relief Services, in New York with Trickle Up, a microfinance NGO, and in India at Akanksha. She holds a M.A. from Fordham University in political economy and development, with a specialization in political economy of civil wars and a B.A. in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, University of Mumbai.