Avila Kilmurray

Avila Kilmurray has worked on social justice and peacebuilding issues in Northern Ireland since 1975.  She was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition and a member of its negotiation team for the Good Friday Agreement (1998).  

Kilmurray is currently Programme Director with Social Change Initiative (SCI) and a Honorary Professor in the Mitchell Institute, Queens University Belfast.  She is currently chairperson of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Peace & Security Grantmaking Committee and an active member of the Foundations for Peace Network. 

She has written extensively on women and peacebuilding as well as on the contribution of philanthropy. She is a member of IFIT Transition Assistance Practice Group.