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Clionadh Raleigh

ACLED founder & CEO · United States

Affiliated with ACLED

Advocacy NGO

Founder, President and CEO of ACLED; political scientist specializing in African and global conflict event data.

Funding & financing

ACLED operating budget from foundations, governments, and private donors.

Affiliations

ACLED executive leadership; academic appointments.

Disclosures & conflicts

ACLED discloses donor categories but not every funder by name. Event counts depend on open-source verification rules that may differ from UN or health-ministry fatality totals.

Credibility & caveats

Real-time event data widely cited in policy and media — coding choices are documented.

Cases in this record

This source informs the record’s methodology, data, or risk assessment rather than a specific case determination. See the methodology for how sources like this are used.

Sources & disclosures