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Philipp Rotmann leads the Global Public Policy Institute’s Peace and Security program. His research interests include global security governance and conflict management, in particular the interface of military force, policing, protection and the rule of law in peace operations and counterinsurgency. Since joining GPPi in 2005, he has driven a major study on United Nations peace operations and organizational learning as well as numerous other research activities. His publications include The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace? (Oxford University Press 2011) as well as numerous articles in academic journals and policy periodicals. His commentary has been featured on the BBC, in the Financial Times Deutschland and in the International Herald Tribune, among others.

Between 2009 and 2011, Philipp supported and advised the German Federal Foreign Office on several occasions. Most recently, he advised the Federal Government’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Michael Steiner, in preparing and hosting the International Afghanistan Conference 2011 in Bonn. Previously, he served as the senior civilian strategy analyst with the International Security Assistance Force in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. In 2009, he was briefly assigned to the special task force on Afghanistan and Pakistan as the Pakistan desk officer. Before joining GPPi, he worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Earlier in his career, he spent three years as a project manager and team leader in the IT industry.

Philipp studied economics, political science and law at the Universities of Erfurt (BA) and Essex, and international relations at Humboldt University Berlin, the Free University Berlin and the University of Potsdam (MA). From 2008 to 2010, he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Master of Public Administration (MPA). His studies were supported by scholarships from Harvard University, the German National Academic Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Haniel Foundation.

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Languages: German, English, French