Eva Lanot - Defense Security Cooperation University

Faculty

Practice & Capability

Ms. Eva Lanot joined the Institute of Security Governance (ISG) as a contractor in 2015 and then transitioned to become a faculty member in 2017. Ms. Lanot serves as part of the Conflict Prevention & Recovery (CPR) functional area within the Practice & Capability Division, where she runs interactive, cross-sectoral courses centered on migration and forced displacement, protection of civilians, border issues, and interagency collaboration. She also leads ISG's civilian harm mitigation (CHM) functional working group and routinely teaches in ISG courses delivered under Civil-Military Relations (CMR), Emergency Management & Resilience (EM&R), and Combatting Terrorism (CbT) functional area banners.

Prior to joining ISG, Ms. Lanot served for eight years as a humanitarian and program professional with the United Nations (UN) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). While working with the UN World Food Programme, Ms. Lanot led the sub-office program division to deliver food and nutritional security programming to over 100,000 refugees in rural Nepal. Her NGO work centered on standardizing health intervention best practices and developing and delivering practitioner toolkits and trainings for indigenous and international NGO representatives serving 48 million beneficiaries who were without access to government health systems.

In her former roles, Ms. Lanot developed expertise in instructional design, competency-based training, protection of acutely vulnerable populations, and facilitative leadership in global health and international relief and recovery operations.

Ms. Lanot holds a Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) where she specialized in Human and Environmental Security, and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Oregon.