Adam Lupel
Adam Lupel is a writer and international relations expert.
Biography
Lupel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University and his PhD in political theory and master's in liberal studies from the The [New School for Social Research|New School for Social Research]Career
Adam Lupel has been serving as the Executive Director of the since September 2025.Lupel, before joining C4UN, was the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute, 2016-2025. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. Between 2014 and 2016 he was the director of research for the . In 2015, he also led IPI's support to the General Assembly-mandated "" on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the .
Prior to 2006, when he joined IPI as Editor, he was the Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and he taught modern and contemporary political theory at The New School's Eugene [Lang College of Liberal Arts|Eugene Lang College] in New York. He has a PhD in political theory and an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University.
Lupel is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma and the co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action. His current work is on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities.