Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux is a Senior Program Officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Director of the RESOLVE Network, a global research network focused on countering violent extremism. Before joining USIP, she served as Strategic Advisor to the Lessons Learned Program at the U.S. Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

An expert on international affairs, she spent five-years working in South Asia where she served as South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post and as senior analyst on Afghanistan for the International Crisis Group. Rondeaux research has covered the conflict in South Asia, the dynamics of political Islam in modern Muslim majority states, and Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. Her work has been regularly featured in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The International Herald Tribune, and The Boston Globe. She has also been a frequent guest analyst on CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC World and National Public Radio.

Prior to her postings in South Asia, Rondeaux worked as a journalist for several leading newspapers in the United States, producing award winning work on criminal justice and legal affairs issues for the Post, The St. Petersburg Times in Florida and covering terrorism and criminal justice issues for the investigative team at The New York Daily News following the 9/11 attacks.

A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Rondeaux holds a B.A. in Russian Area Studies, M.A. Journalism from New York University, and an MPP in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.