Wilson Center Experts

Aly Lyons is the Program Assistant with the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has been with the Center in this capacity since September 2010. As Program Assistant, Ms. Lyons is responsible for organizing and executing major public and private events surrounding issues of leadership, state-building, peace-building and fragile states both at the Wilson Center and abroad; managing Leadership Project grants and grant-related activities; and providing administrative and logistical support to the leadership training project in Liberia.

Prior to this, Ms. Lyons interned with the Leadership Project from 2009-2010 while finishing her masters degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, DC.  In 2009, Ms. Lyons interned with the Institute for Inclusive Security in Washington, DC where she worked with multiple teams on increasing women’s participation in peacebuilding processes, including the planning of a major Gender-Sensitive Training of Trainers. In 2008, Ms. Lyons interned with the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC) in New York, NY where she assisted the Corporate Strategies and Member Services team with researching and liaising with potential members interested in tailoring, in part or in whole, their Corporate Social Responsibility programs to health-related issues.