Andrea Binder is a Project Manager with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. Her areas of expertise include humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and monitoring and evaluation. She is currently leading the 'Emerging donors' project and is team member of the IASC 'Cluster Approach Evaluation Phase II.' For this evaluation she is responsible for the methodology and indicator development as well as for the country studies in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to this assignment Andrea was involved in numerous other GPPi evaluation and research projects, including the development and implementation of an monitoring and evaluation framework for the IASC's GenCap Project, the 'Raising the Bar' Project on enhancing transatlantic approaches to humanitarian assistance and an assessment of cooperate engagement in disaster preparedness and humanitarian response on behalf of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Andrea has field experience in Ghana and Sri Lanka. She has conducted field research in Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti.

Prior to 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, Gütersloh; the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva; and the Policy Planning Unit of the German Foreign Office, Berlin.

Andrea studied political science, economics, and rhetoric at the universities of Augsburg, and Tübingen, Germany; the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), Geneva; and the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), France. She received her M.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Tübingen in 2005 with a thesis on "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