Peter Van Praagh

Peter Van Praagh is a Canadian foreign and security policy advisor. He is the president of the Halifax International Security Forum, which he founded in 2009 within the German Marshall Fund. Since 2011, the forum is independent as HFX, a Washington, D.C.–based non-profit organization.

Education Van Praagh graduated from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics.

Career Van Praagh was director for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Turkey. and as deputy vice president of the National Endowment for Democracy. Van Praagh coined CRINK, an acronym that stands for the authoritarian states China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, at the 2023 Halifax International Security Forum.

Van Praagh is on the Board of Directors of Temple Micah in Washington, D.C.

Private life Van Praagh is married with three children.