Andrea Binder is associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. Her areas of expertise include humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and monitoring and evaluation. She is currently heading up the project Emerging Donors and a review of the UNICEF Strategic Framework for Partnerships and Collaborative Relationship. She has been involved in many other GPPi evaluation and research projects, including the Uniting on Food Assistance project and the IASC Real-time Evaluation of the Disaster Response to the Haiti Earthquake. As part of the IASC Cluster Approach Evaluation Phase II, Andrea was responsible for methodology and indicator development as well as the country studies in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Andrea has field experience in Ghana and Sri Lanka, and she has conducted additional field research in Uganda and the Central African Republic.

Before joining GPPi in March 2006, Andrea worked as a lecturer in international relations at the University Tübingen, Germany. Her work experience also includes assignments with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Colombo, Sri Lanka; the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh, Germany; the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva; and the Policy Planning Unit of the German Foreign Office in Berlin.

Andrea studied political science, economics and rhetoric at the University of Augsburg and University of Tübingen; the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) in Geneva; and the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in France. She received her MA in political science and international relations from the University of Tübingen in 2005 with a thesis titled Getting Busy for Peace: Local Business Engagement for Peace-Building in Sri Lanka. She received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.

Languages: German, English, French