Heidi Silvey is an attorney, program manager, and business development professional who has worked with government and non-governmental organizations in transitional, conflict, complex emergency, and post-conflict environments. Her professional experience includes oversight of sizeable program management teams implementing stabilization operations, efforts focused on countering violent extremism (CVE), transitional justice, rule of law, and providing humanitarian assistance while helping expand the organizational and institutional capacity of local and community-based organizations. She has managed programs funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Department of State (DoS), the US Department of Defense, Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth Office, and the German Foreign Ministry. Ms. Silvey has worked on and managed a variety of conflict mitigation, resilience, peacebuilding, and stabilization efforts across the Middle East, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North/West Africa, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, and Eastern Europe. Ms. Silvey possesses a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Gonzaga University School of Law, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado/Boulder, and spent the first nine years of her professional career practicing law in Spokane, WA.