Frédéric Charillon is a university professor at Paris Cité University, and co-director of the Geopolitics Defence and Leadership programme at ESSEC Business School. He also teaches at Sciences Po, at Clermont Auvergne University and at the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez. He directed the Centre for Studies in Defence Social Sciences (Ministry of Defence, Paris), the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School, and coordinated the teaching of international issues at the ENA.

He publishes a weekly column in the daily newspaper L'Opinion, and has published numerous works, including Wars of Influence (Odile Jacob, 2022), France in the World (CNRS, 2021), Global Diplomacy (with Th. Balzacq and F. Ramel, Palgrave, 2020).

Peter Lintl is a political scientist at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) in the Middle East and Africa research group and heads a research project on Israel.

He studied political science, history and philosophy in Erlangen, Haifa and Tel Aviv. His research focuses on religion and politics, tradition and modernity and various Israel-related topics. His publications include "Die Charedim als Herausforderung für den jüdischen Staat", "Israels Nationalgesetz" and "Akteure des israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikts".

Nina is a YSC Fellow, currently completing a MA in Contemporary European Studies at the University of Bath and the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Her focus lies on the political conflict in the Middle East and she is planning to write her thesis on the security and foreign policy of the EU in that region. At the moment, Nina is working at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin, gaining practical experience in a political working environment.

Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Gender

Annika joined PIR from the University of Lund, where she was Associate Professor in IR, and with which she retains an affiliation. Prior to working at Lund Annika was Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Relations. She has also held permanent lectureships at the Universities of Leicester and Edinburgh. She obtained her BSc (Government) at London School of Economics and her MSc and D.Phil. (European studies/International Relations) at the University of Sussex.

Annika is an international relations and gender scholar whose work stretches across a range of fields including feminist foreign policy, feminist security studies, gender cosmopolitanism and care ethics, feminist peace and digital diplomacy, critical military studies, the study of crisis, populism and gendered nationalism, human rights and environmental justice as well as intersectionality. She also works on celebrity humanitarianism, pop culture and world politics, with focus on the ethical, gendered, neoliberal and colonial underpinnings of celebrity politics and activism. Her article “NATO’s Strategic Narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance’s celebrity and visual turn” (co-authored with Katharine Wright, Newcastle University), was selected the lead editor’s favourite article, published in the journal Review of International Studies in 2021 and 2022.

Humphrey International Fellow

Iryna Drobovych is a civil society leader and advocate for gender equality and democracy. She is the Strategy Director of the Ukrainian Women's Congress, a nonprofit organization. In this role, she collaborates with national and international partners on research and advocacy related to gender and public policy. She advocates for women’s rights and leadership in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Previously, she served as a Government Relations Advisor with the Open Ukraine Foundation and as an Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister.

Iryna holds a BA in International Relations and an MA in International Strategies and Security. Her professional goals include developing strategies on the national gender and rebuilding policy, advocating equal opportunities in Ukraine's post-war recovery, and working within Ukraine’s national government, civil society and international donors to advance gender equality.

Assistant Professor of European Studies

Hannah is an Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, specializes in 'Europe in the World.' With an extensive academic background, she has served as a lecturer at the Department of European Studies (UvA) and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at VU Amsterdam. Having defended her PhD at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen in 2015, her research revolves around security, militarism, and civil society funding, focusing on the European Union, Turkey, and the Netherlands. Dr. Muehlenhoff brings diverse perspectives, including feminist, queer, postcolonial, and Foucauldian, to her analytical framework.

Her contributions extend beyond teaching and research, as she holds the elected position of co-chair of the Council of European Studies Gender and Sexuality Research Network. Dr. Muehlenhoff has played a key role in coordinating the 'Gender and Sexuality in European (Geo)Politics' online lecture series and serves as the principal investigator in the interdisciplinary research project "Emotions in European Politics: Affective Dynamics and Complex Societal Challenges," funded by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). She has also co-edited a special issue for Political Studies Review on 'Slipping Off or Turning the Tide: Gender Equality in European Union's External Relations in Times of Crisis.' Furthermore, her book, "EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality: Turkey and Beyond," published by Routledge in March 2019, sheds light on the impact of EU funding on human rights organizations in Turkey, with a specific focus on the agency of Turkish women's, LGBTQ, and human rights groups involved with EU grants.

YSC Fellow

Lena Wittenfeld (she/her) graduated with a Master's degree in "Democratic Governance and Civil Society" at the University of Osnabrück. Since September 2023, she works as a research associate at the University of Bielefeld and writes her dissertation on Feminist Foreign Policy. In her research, she focuses on topics in the intersection of Political Theory, International Relations and Gender and Queer Studies including feminist International Relations, (feminist) foreign policy, critical feminist theories, and intersectional as well as postcolonial feminisms. Lena also serves as co-program director of the ‘Gender and International Politics’ program at Polis180 e.V. Currently, she also holds a Sylke-Temple Fellowship critically studying ‘Why Feminist Foreign Policy Offers Realpolitik Solutions in Times of Geopolitical Crises’ and is a YSC Fellow.