xenia wickett (née dormandy) is the project director of the us project at chatham house and dean of the queen elizabeth ii academy for leadership in international affairs, chatham house’s new leadership training initiative. prior to this she was the executive director of the peacenexus foundation, based outside geneva, which she launched in 2009. from 2005 to 2009, wickett was at harvard kennedy school's belfer center where she was the director of the project on india and the subcontinent and the executive director for research.