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Interview with Karin Von Hippel "4x4 Directors Forum"

January 30, 2019
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International Relations
Geopolitics
Africa
Europe

Karin von Hippel Director-General, RUSI, United Kingdom __ www.policycenter.ma

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Karin von Hippel
Director-General, RUSI, United Kingdom
Dr Karin von Hippel became Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 30 November 2015. Karin von Hippel joined RUSI after serving for nearly six years in the US Department of State as a Senior Adviser in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, then as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and finally, as Chief of Staff to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL.  Prior to that, she co-directed the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC and was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London. She has also worked for the United Nations and the European Union in Somal ...

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