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Our team brings together people of diverse backgrounds and expertise. Learn more about us below.

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Middle East and North Africa Unit Saad Abou Chahine

Project Manager
Executive Office Pablo Agüera Reneses

Project Manager
Finance Hilal Akrami

Finance Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Nazih Al Chami

Project Officer
Peace Education Musa Al Munaizel

Senior Associate
Yemen Unit Samah Altaher

Project Officer
Middle East and North Africa Unit Ali Anan

Senior Project Manager
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Teresa Isabel Andion-Wessel

Project Officer
Finance Gustavo Arnaudo

Head of Finance
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Bakhtiyar Aslanov

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Matthias Auer

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Beatrix Austin

Head of Department
Middle East and North Africa Unit Lara Azzam

Senior Project Manager
Communications Natalie Baharav

Head of Communications
Yemen Unit Dalia Barsoum

Head of Unit
Strategic Partnerships Fidel Bartholdy

Strategic Partnerships Manager Research & Education
Negotiation and Mediation Support Rasmus Bellmer

Project Manager
Finance Uta Bieber

Finance Manager
Peace Education Cora Bieß

Project Manager
Finance Samia Binte Alamgir

Finance Manager
Yemen Unit Ronja Birk

Project Officer
Middle East and North Africa Unit Nanor Bitar

Project Officer
Ethiopia Unit Tom Breese

Project Officer
Afghanistan and Central/South Asia Unit Theresa Breitmaier

Senior Project Manager
Monitoring and Evaluation team Kathrin Buddendieck

Advisor
Ethiopia Unit Tim Bunke

Senior Project Manager
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Victoria Cochrane

Head of Unit
Executive Office Chris Coulter

Executive Director
Negotiation and Mediation Support Claudia Cruz Almeida

Project Manager
Communications Ben Currey

Media and Communications Manager
Ethiopia Unit Jose Pascal da Rocha

Senior Advisor and Trainer on Dialogue and Mediation
Conflict Transformation Research Rebecca Davis

Associate Researcher
Middle East and North Africa Unit Jan Deeg

Project Manager
Ethiopia Unit Julian Demmer

Head of Unit
Ethiopia Unit Kasahun Dender

Senior Programme Coordinator
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Nura Detweiler

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Véronique Dudouet

Senior Advisor
Monitoring and Evaluation team Frederike Engeland Minegishi

Advisor
Middle East and North Africa Unit Robert Farajalla

Project Coordinator
Afghanistan and Central/South Asia Unit Basir Feda

Head of Unit
Communications Nadine Francis-Pohle

Communications Manager
Human Resources Janina Gäde

HR Generalist
Regional Peace Support Janel B. Galvanek

Head of Department
Middle East and North Africa Unit Armani Gambaryan

Project Manager
Negotiation and Mediation Support Rachel Gasser

Senior Advisor
Negotiation and Mediation Support Amelie Gätjen

Project Manager
Afghanistan and Central/South Asia Unit Hans-Joachim Giessmann

Director Emeritus
Conflict Transformation Research Michaela Glaser

Senior Researcher and Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Karin Göldner-Ebenthal

Researcher
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Pascal Grimm

Project Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Christian Gülisch

Head of Unit
Conflict Transformation Research Charlotte Hamm

Researcher and Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Antje Herrberg

Associate Researcher
Regional Peace Support Christina Horváth-Stenner

Head of Unit Europe
Conflict Transformation Research Johanna-Maria Hülzer

Project Manager
Yemen Unit Calum Humphreys

Project Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Heidi Huuhtanen

Senior Advisor
Peace Education Uli Jäger

Senior Associate
Yemen Unit Katharina Jautz

Project Manager
Peace Education Miriam Kaiser

Project Officer
Communications Katie Kamins

Social Media Coordinator
Negotiation and Mediation Support Narine Karapetyan

Senior Advisor
Middle East and North Africa Unit Feras Kheirallah

Senior Programme Manager, former Representative Beirut Office (on sabbatical)
Regional Peace Support Izzat Khushbakov

Senior Project Manager
Ethiopia Unit Mary Kidane

Project Officer
Finance Anne Kierkegaard

Finance Manager
Yemen Unit Isabel Kleitsch

Senior Project Manager
Peace Education Anne Kruck

Head of Unit
Middle East and North Africa Unit Patricia Kruse

Project Officer
Conflict Transformation Research Carla Kühleis

Project Officer
Human Resources Nino Lawrinenko

HR Generalist
Monitoring and Evaluation team Maja Leo

Advisor
Regional Peace Support Mariia Levchenko

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Johanna Lober

Senior Project Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Nike Löble

Project Manager
Communications Florian Lüdtke

Media and Communications Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Stina Lundström

Associate Researcher
Middle East and North Africa Unit Hassan Mais

Project Consultant
Ethiopia Unit Feben Makonnen

Project Officer
Negotiation and Mediation Support Antonia März

Project Officer
Ethiopia Unit Linda Maurer

Project Manager
Strategic Partnerships Elisabeth Meyer

Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager
IT and Facility Management Lisa Mohn

Office Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Mohammed Moneim

Project Assistant
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Mir Mubashir

Advisor, Dialogue and Mediation Support
Finance Dennis Mugambi Kiogora

Finance Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Sonja Neuweiler

Senior Advisor
Peace Education Ann Njeri Rajkowski

Office Manager
Peace Education Dagmar Nolden

Senior Project Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Rabih Omar

Senior Project Manager
Ethiopia Unit Paola Ottomano

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Evelyn Pauls

Associate Researcher
Finance Ulrike Pflanz

Head of Unit
Strategic Partnerships Melanie Plöger

Senior Project Manager
Executive Office Carolin Poeschke

Chief of Staff
Yemen Unit Kenza Rady

Project Manager
Middle East and North Africa Unit Alexander Reiffenstuel

Project Officer
Conflict Transformation Research Clarisse Renoux

Intern
Strategic Partnerships Shirin Reuvers

Head of Strategic Partnerships
Peace Education Nicole Rieber

Head of Unit
Yemen Unit Joshua Rogers

Head of Unit
Thailand team Norbert Ropers

Senior Advisor
Communications Annett Rößling

Communications Manager
Yemen Unit Ali Saif Hassan

Yemen Team
Afghanistan and Central/South Asia Unit Johanna Sassenrath

Project Officer
Monitoring and Evaluation team Andreas Schädel

Advisor
Peace Education Tessa Schindler

Project Officer
Negotiation and Mediation Support Carla Schraml

Advisor Mediation & Negotiation Support
Regional Peace Support Christine Seifert

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Samuel Sontag

Global Public Service Fellow
Conflict Transformation Research Nina Strumpf

Project Manager
Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Arrliya Sugal

Project Manager
Finance Malte Tepe

Head of Unit
Afghanistan and Central/South Asia Unit Miriam Trefzer

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Barbara Unger

Senior Advisor
Ethiopia Unit Maria Paula Unigarro Alba

Project Officer
Finance Khaled Urfa

Finance Manager
Ethiopia Unit Suzanne van Hooff

Senior Project Manager
Finance Victor Vigil

Finance Manager
Communications Dhari Vij

Conference Manager
Negotiation and Mediation Support Luxshi Vimalarajah

Senior Mediation Advisor - Track 1-1.5
Finance Luiza Weinrich

Finance Manager
Human Resources Alex Weitz

Head of HR
MENA Peace Support Oliver Wils

Head of Department
Executive Office Rebecca Winter

Executive Assistant
Monitoring and Evaluation team Line Winterhoff

Advisor
Peace Education Jasmin Wölbl

Project Officer
Regional Peace Support Oliver Wolleh

Senior Advisor
Middle East and North Africa Unit Talal Zeidan

Project Manager
Conflict Transformation Research Natascha Zupan

Head of the Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation

Our Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees Diana Chigas

Advisor to the Board
Board of Trustees Nickolay E. Mladenov

Member
Board of Trustees Kjell-Åke Nordquist

Advisor to the Board
Board of Trustees Neha Sanghrajka

Member
Board of Trustees Dieter Senghaas

Honorary Member
Board of Trustees Christian Sundermann

Member
Board of Trustees Mathias Terheggen

Member
Board of Trustees Johannes Zundel

Chair