Gary Milante is a member of the Advisory Board and an independent peace researcher.

He has focused on the intersection of security and socio-economic development throughout his career as an economist, researcher and policy advisor. He is an independent peace researcher and consultant with a focus on the measurement and verification of peace, conflict and fragility, on international financing levels and mechanisms, as well as on scenario analysis and the game theory of conflict. Dr. Milante worked with the World Bank for more than a decade in the Development Economics Research Group, the Fragile States Group and as lead economist on the World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development. He was the Director for Peace and Development for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and has worked as a consultant and advisor to Interpeace, the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, NATO and governments of developing countries. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Irvine and currently resides in San Francisco, California.