Berkley Center

Virginia M. Bouvier worked at the United States Institute of Peace from 2003 until her death in 2017. Most recently senior advisor for peace processes, she became head of USIP’s Colombia team in 2006; she was seconded in 2012 and 2013 to serve as a process design expert for the United Nations Standby Team of Mediation Experts. Prior to USIP, she was a University of Maryland assistant professor of Latin American literature and culture. From 1982 to 1989 Bouvier served as senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, focusing on Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Bouvier also served as a consultant and research director for the Women’s Leadership Conference of the Americas and as a consultant at the World Bank, Levi Strauss Foundation, Levi Strauss and Co., and the C.S. Fund. She was a graduate of Wellesley College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Latin American studies.