About

Meredith Preston McGhie is the Secretary General for the Global Centre for Pluralism, an independent, global institution co-founded by His Highness the Aga Khan and the Government of Canada. In this role, Ms. Preston McGhie provides strategic leadership for the Centre and acts as an ambassador of pluralism to develop strong relationships with diplomatic communities, governments and other institutions.

Previously Ms. Preston McGhie mediated and advised a range of peace processes as the Regional Director for Africa with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and before that with the UN. Ms. Preston McGhie served as an advisor to the late H.E. Kofi Annan during the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation. Through more than 25 years across Africa, she has helped to establish and facilitate peace processes in Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan and elsewhere.

Her work has spanned a range of issues, including electoral conflict, disarmament and demobilisation, and inclusion. She contributes to policy discussions on peacemaking and pluralism globally, including teaching peace process design at ETH in Zurich and elsewhere. Ms. Preston McGhie began her career supporting conflict resolution efforts of leaders in the Naga community of North East India and among Indigenous minorities in Myanmar with the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact.