Dr Florence Gaub

Dr Gaub has served as a research fellow in the German Parliament, focusing on issues of defense, internal security and development. She has also held positions with the French Defence Ministry’s Research Centre in the Social Sciences of Defence (Centre d’études en sciences sociales de la defense), the Centre for Security Studies in Sarajevo, the Centre for Applied Policy Research in Munich, as well as with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in New York, where she coordinated courses for diplomats posted at the United Nations.  She has conducted extensive field studies in Lebanon, Iraq, Nigeria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina and has published several articles and books on these topics.

Dr. Gaub graduated from Sorbonne University in Paris and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munic.  She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Humboldt University of Berlin.