Dr. Torunn L. Tryggestad is Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO, and Director of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security. She holds a PhD in Political Science (University of Oslo) on the topic “International Norms and Political Change: ‘Women, Peace and Security’ and the UN Security Agenda”.

Her research focuses on the gendered dimensions of conflict resolution, conflict management, peace mediation, and peacebuilding. She has extensive experience from teaching, training, and the provision of policy advice to various Norwegian stakeholders as well as international organizations such as the UN and NATO. She has been centrally involved in the planning and conduction of the UN High-Level Seminars on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Strategies and in establishing the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) network. Tryggestad was one of the principal authors of the Norwegian Government’s first National Action Plan on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2006). She was a member of the UN Secretary General’s fourth and fifth UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group from 2015-2020. She is also a former member of the NATO Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on Women, Peace and Security.