Sandra Dunsmore

Sandra Dunsmore is the regional director for Latin America at the Open Society Foundations. In this capacity, she oversees all of the Foundations’ activities in Latin America and acts as a liaison between the Foundations and the Soros foundations in Guatemala and Haiti.

Dunsmore joined the Foundations in 2008 after many years of leadership and strategic management experience, much of it in the field. Dunsmore’s principal geographic focus has been Latin America. The majority of her experience is in the areas of conflict transformation, peace building, and democratic development. Dunsmore spent 13 years in Central America. During that time she worked for the Organization of American States and the American Friends Service Committee, and consulted for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She returned to her native Canada as president of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, a bilingual not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preparation of police, military, and civilians for participation in peace operations. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, Dunsmore acted as a consultant to various nongovernmental organizations, including Open Society.