Kai Koddenbrock

Kai Koddenbrock is a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. His research interests include elite formation and state-society relations in Africa, humanitarian assistance, in particular civil-military relations and LRRD, and migration and integration policy.

Kai worked as consultant to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York and contributed to a study on the “Effective use of foreign military assets in international natural disaster response” with the case studies of Haiti, Mozambique, Indonesia and Pakistan. Prior to that he interned at the OCHA Policy Development and Studies Branch where he worked on the humanitarian assessment mission on the possible further Security Council sanctions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also interned at the Central-America and the Caribbean Section of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and at Gardegi, a Togolese development NGO. As a volunteer Kai worked as social worker in a Camphill school for handicapped youngsters in Hermanus, South Africa, and helped set up the foreign policy and development organisation Lupe e.V. in Passau and works as part of the group of editors and author for the political journal ConText. In addition, he served as tutor for interns going to West-Africa as part of the French-German development programme ASA-Géco.

Kai holds a Diploma in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau (Germany) and studied Political Science at the University of Passau and the Free University Berlin. He completed his final thesis on “Smart Sanctions against Failed States – Strengthening the State through UN Smart Sanctions in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo”. He received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the Carlo-Schmid Programme and the ASA-Programme.

Languages: German, English, French and Spanish