Steven Siqueira *05 SPIA
Deputy Director, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre
Steven Siqueira serves as deputy director of the United Nations (U.N.) Counter-Terrorism Center in the Office of Counter-Terrorism, overseeing an interdisciplinary program that supports member states to counter and ultimately prevent terrorism and violent extremism. He also served as deputy director of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force Office of the Department of Political Affairs from 2015-17. From 2020-21 he was chief of staff and director of planning for the startup of the U.N. Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan. He has served as chief of staff, ad interim, for three other peace operations in the Central African Republic, Burundi and Mali, supporting senior leadership to implement significant changes to their mandates, including the recruitment of new executive teams. In the field, Siqueira worked in Baghdad and as a consultant in Jerusalem. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from McGill University and a master’s in public policy from Princeton and was a Fulbright Scholar at Princeton in 2005.