Liz Hume
Executive Director, Alliance for Peacebuilding
2026
Liz Hume is the Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and a conflict expert with more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions in the U.S. Government, the United Nations, and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex prevention and peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Liz holds a BA from Boston College, a JD from Vermont Law School, and a MA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Liz is an adjunct professor at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, and a frequent guest lecturer and author on conflict analysis and peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile states.
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
