Ms. Denise Lifton is Chief of the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Section, in the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), where she oversees the Centre’s Global Programme on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, the Global Victims of Terrorism Support Programme and OCT’s regional presence in Bangkok. Ms. Lifton has over 25 years of experience in international affairs, conflict management, peacebuilding, child protection and human rights. Her responsibilities have included policy development, reporting and monitoring human rights violations, political affairs, capacity building and technical assistance and management. She is the former head of the UNCCT’s Victims of Terrorism Unit and the UNOCT’s Human Rights Unit. Prior to joining the UNCCT, Ms. Lifton worked for over 10 years with the United Nations on human rights and child protection in Khartoum and Darfur, Sudan, where she helped to establish three child protection offices across the region, and was head of the human right unit in Paktya province and Head of Protection of Civilians Unit in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ms. Lifton also worked for several human rights non-governmental organizations both at the international and national level, including with Amnesty International (USA and UK), and Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, a Ugandan NGO. Ms. Lifton has also undertaken numerous consultancies on human rights, including with the EU in Sudan and with various UN and NGO entities. Ms. Lifton holds an MSc. in International Relations from Southampton University and a BSc. in Organization Behaviour from City University, in the United Kingdom.