Erin K. McFee is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, where she supports the Center’s work on regional security. McFee is also the founder and president of the Corioli Institute, a global think tank that works to reintegrate formerly armed actors and strengthen security, resilience, and social cohesion in communities affected by violence. McFee has led extensive fieldwork in more than a dozen countries since 2010, working directly with formerly armed actors to reintegrate military veterans, ex-guerrillas, former insurgents, and former gang members across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Eurasia.

McFee’s expertise lies in disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. She serves on the International Organization for Migration’s roster of specialists. Her research and advisory work have informed national and international strategies on veteran reintegration in Ukraine, security sector reform in the Horn of Africa, and stabilization programs in the MENA region.

McFee is also a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders fellow and a Fulbright-Hays awardee. She holds a PhD and MA in anthropology from the University of Chicago, an MBA from Simmons University, and executive certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Geneva Graduate Institute.