David J. Simon is a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, as well as the assistant dean for graduate education at the school and co-director of the school’s Peacebuilding Initiative. David serves as director of Yale’s Genocide Studies Program. He directs the program’s Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era project, which addresses how digital technology influences all aspects of contemporary mass atrocities.
His research focuses on mass atrocity prevention and post-atrocity recovery,. He has consulted for the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide and serves as the board chair of The Reckoning Project.
David holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University.
