Background

Dr. Teitt is the Centre's Director and was formerly the Deputy Director for over 10 years responsible for advancing research and building partnerships in the Asia Pacific region aimed at preventing mass atrocity crimes. Sarah was a founding member of the Centre's management team in 2008 and from 2009 to mid-2012 served as the Centre's Outreach Director. 

She has spent nearly a decade delivering training and education programs on mass atrocities prevention in the Asia Pacific, including in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines, Mongolia, Japan and China.

She has a PhD, an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution and a BA in International Relations and East Asian Studies.

Research Expertise

  • Responsibility to Protect and International Relations
  • Chinese Foreign Policy
  • Gender and Mass Atrocities Prevention