Karin Landgren (born 1957) is the executive director of the independent think tank Security Council Report.
She has also worked extensively in humanitarian response, development, and protection with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF.
In early 1983 she moved to India, working on the protection of Afghan and Iranian asylum-seekers.
[13] In an article published in December 2015, Landgren drew attention to the scant numbers of women appointed to senior UN positions that year, notwithstanding the Secretary-General’s stated commitment to gender parity at the United Nations.
The following year, all candidates for the post of Secretary-General publicly pledged themselves to a policy of gender parity.
Landgren was married to John Mills, a foreign correspondent and bureau chief of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and subsequently a UN spokesperson, until his death in 2001.