Emily Prey

Emily Prey is the director of the Mass Atrocities and International Law Portfolio and of the Gender Policy Portfolio at the New Lines Institute, where she leads and produces research on topics including atrocity prevention, the future of international law, and gendered analyses of foreign policy. She served as an advisor on and contributed to the institute’s groundbreaking independent expert reports on genocide including: 1) The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention, 2) An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent, 3) Genocide in Tigray: Serious breaches of international law in the Tigray conflict, Ethiopia, and paths to accountability, and 4) An Examination of Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Afghanistan since August 2021.

Prey has been interviewed by international media, including The New York Times, CNN, Radio France International, ilGiornale, and Radio Free Asia Institute for her expertise on gender, conflict-related sexual violence, and genocide. She has briefed members of Congress and their staff, U.S. government agencies, and members of parliaments around the world on genocide; conflict-related sexual violence; and Women, Peace and Security. Prey is the founder of “Gendering Geopolitics,” a popular Twitter Live series where she uses a gendered lens to interview prominent female diplomats, journalist, activists and more around the world for 10 minutes on a particular issue. 

Prior to joining the New Lines Institute, she served as Project Manager of the Financial Integration in Displacement Initiative of the International Rescue Committee at Tufts University. She has also worked with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and multiple global NGOs. She has several years of experience living and working in international development settings in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East. She obtained her LLM in Human Rights, Justice, and Conflict from SOAS University of London, her Master’s in Gender Analysis and Human Security from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and her Bachelor’s in History from Williams College. She tweets at @eepreylove.