Vedika Pillai

Vedika Pillai is a Programme Assistant at UNIDIR’s Security and Technology Programme. Her areas of expertise include armed violence prevention, resource conflicts, and emerging technologies.

She holds a master’s degree specializing in Conflict, Peace and Security from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and degrees in Sociology, International Relations, and Peacebuilding from Lady Shri Ram College, the University of Delhi, and Sciences Po.

She has worked on research and project coordination across multiple international projects with UNICEF, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Global Fund and Legal Action Worldwide. Her published work includes reports for UNICEF Innocenti on social protection in Ethiopia and articles for UNIDIR and the People’s Archive of Rural India.

Vedika speaks English, Hindi, Malayalam and has intermediate proficiency in French.