Jago Salmon is an advisor to the United Nations and the World Bank Group on Fragile and Conflict Affected States. Jago has over 15 years’ experience in policy analysis, programme design and project management in conflict settings with field experience in Sudan, CAR, Somalia, Yemen, Liberia, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. Jago established the UN Programme on Core Government Functions, supporting states in the immediate aftermath of conflict, and lead the UN's Payment Programme for Ebola Response Workers as part of the integrated UN response to the Ebola epidemic in 2014/15 and the support to Security Sector in the aftermath of the 2014 crisis in CAR. Prior to joining the UN, Jago worked with the Small Arms Survey, International Crisis Group, the Overseas Development Institute and the UK's Department for International Development. Jago has a doctorate on the formation and organisation of armed groups in Sudan and Lebanon from Humboldt University in Berlin.