Karin von Hippel

Karin von Hippel is director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and senior fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS. She is currently on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States and has direct experience in over two dozen conflict zones. Previously, she was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London, and spent several years working for the United Nations and the European Union in Somalia and Kosovo. In 2004 and 2005, she participated in two major studies for the United Nations—one on UN peacekeeping and the second on the UN humanitarian system. Also in 2004, she was part of a small team funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to investigate the development potential of Somali remittances. In 2002, she advised the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the role of development cooperation in discovering the root causes of terrorism.

Von Hippel directed a project on European counterterrorist reforms funded by the MacArthur Foundation and edited Europe Confronts Terrorism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). She was a member of Project Unicorn, a counterterrorism police advisory panel in London. Additional publications include Democracy by Force (Cambridge, 2000), which was short-listed for the Westminster Medal in Military History. She received her Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics, her M.St. from Oxford University, and her B.A. from Yale University.