Sean Kane is currently the Libya Deputy Team Leader and Benghazi Representative for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a Geneva based independent mediation organization. Prior to his time in Libya, Sean worked on Iraq related issues from 2006 to 2011. This included working for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq in Baghdad from 2006 to 2009 and as a Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace, where he was the Institute’s primary policy expert on Iraq. He has also served on the Middle East Desk with the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, covering Middle East Peace Process related issues, and with the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). During the summer of 2004 he worked for the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina on economic issues resulting from the 1990s conflict. He was previously an Associate Lecturer/Researcher with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and a Senior Research Analyst at the U.S.-based strategy consulting firm Dove Associates.

Sean has published on the subjects of natural resource negotiations and Middle East politics, including for the Brookings Institution, the National Interest, and Foreign Policy online, and has commented on developments in Iraq for Al Jazeera, Al Hurra, the BBC, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Voice of America and Sirius Satellite Radio. He has a B.A. from Bowdoin College and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.  He has also studied at the London School of Economics.