Senior Fellow
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation, where he advises on the future of multilateralism. He is editor of UN Foundation’s [Re]Group website on multilateralism in turbulent times and consulting producer for World’s Toughest Job, a podcast co-production with Foreign Policy on the selection of a new Secretary-General. He led a team of partners supporting the UN Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda report and launched the Foundation’s program on young people and future generations.
David is also a senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, where he helped develop the Sustainable Development Goals and co-founded the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. He was founding director of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to accelerate action for the 2030 Agenda targets for peace, justice, and inclusion (SDG16+) and led the secretariat for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All. David was a Senior External Adviser to and co-author of the UN/World Bank 2018 flagship report Pathways for Peace and a co-author of the OECD’s States of Fragility Report in 2015. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014).
