Adam Lupel is the executive director for the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN), which is a global platform of civil society organizations committed to creating a stronger, more effective and more accountable UN System. C4UN works to empower civil society organizations to facilitate their engagement in UN processes.
Lupel was the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute from 2016-2025. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. He was responsible for developing IPI’s long-term research agenda and for overseeing management and coordination among all IPI Departments.
Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the director of research and publications for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a project of IPI. In 2015, he led IPI’s support to the General Assembly-mandated “Lessons Learned Exercise” on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Dr. Lupel also conducts research on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities. He is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma (2009) and the co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (2011) and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (2013)