{{Short description|American political scientist and NGO executive}} <!--If this template is removed, do not replace it: The perceived promotionalism has been removed by User:DGG--> {{Cleanup-PR|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Lupel | image = | caption = Adam Lupel - New York - 2025 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970|02}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois | education = Boston University, New School for Social Research | occupation = Executive Director of the [https://c4unwn.org Coalition for the UN We Need] | notable_works = ''Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action ''(2013) | spouse = }} '''Adam Lupel''' (born 1970 in Chicago) is a writer and international relations expert.
== Biography == Lupel was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University and his PhD in political theory and master's in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mmm.edu/live/profiles/2697-adam-lupel|title=Adam Lupel|website=mmm.edu|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref>
== Career ==
Adam Lupel has been serving as the Executive Director of the [https://c4unwn.org Coalition for the UN We Need] (C4UN) since September 2025.
Lupel, before joining C4UN, was the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute (IPI), 2016-2025. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. Between 2014 and 2016 he was the director of research for the [https://www.ipinst.org/publications/series/icm-final-reports Independent Commission on Multilateralism]. In 2015, he also led IPI's support to the General Assembly-mandated "[https://www.un.org/en/ga/fifth/71/Statements/134.%20PB_20162017_SS_UNMEER/C5_71_1r_ST_2017_03_06_Item134_PB2016-2017_UNMEER_Representive%20of%20the%20SG.pdf Lessons Learned Exercise]" on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the [https://www.un.org/sg/en/global-leadership/entity/secretariat-and-regional-commissions/executive-office-of-the-secretary-general Executive Office of the Secretary-General].
Prior to 2006, when he joined IPI as Editor, he was the Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and he taught modern and contemporary political theory at The New School's Eugene Lang College in New York. He has a PhD in political theory and an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University.
Lupel is the author of ''Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma'' (2009)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Globalization and popular sovereignty : democracy's transnational dilemma|last=Lupel, Adam.|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415777445|location=London|oclc=244063578}}</ref> and the co-editor of ''Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies?'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Peace-Operations-and-Organized-Crime-Enemies-or-Allies-1st-Edition/Cockayne-Lupel/p/book/9780415601702|title=Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies?, 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge|website=Routledge.com|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref> and ''Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action'' (2013).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action by Adam Lupel (Editor), Ernesto Verdeja (Editor)|isbn=978-1588269065 |last1=Lupel |first1=Adam |last2=Verdeja |first2=Ernesto |year=2013 }}</ref> His current work is on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://osce-network.net/partner-institutions/ipi/|title=International Peace Institute (IPI): OSCE Network|website=osce-network.net|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref>
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