Patty Chang

Patty Chang is a Senior Research Fellow at 3ie and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations at New York University.

She focuses on international and subnational security, particularly the dynamics of major civil wars, illicit weapons trafficking, peace negotiations, and the management of armed conflict by international organizations. Her teaching interests include field research under conditions of armed conflict and post-conflict zones, peace operations, and peacebuilding. Her regional focus is on West Africa and the Sahel.

She has served as a senior researcher and senior advisor to the Peace Research Institute Oslo, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. She has extensive experience conducting evaluations within the UN system and served as Chief of Section for Entebbe Peacekeeping Evaluation at the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services, where she oversaw program evaluations of peacekeeping operations, guiding strategic direction and promoting institutional learning. With broad expertise in policy design, program evaluation, and applied research, she has advised international organizations on security governance, peacebuilding, and gender-sensitive approaches to conflict resolution, including work with the UN Development Programme, the Department of Peace Operations, and the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.

She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, England.