Vice President and Head of Conflict Prevention Program, EastWest Institute
Ambassador
Ortwin Hennig is a Vice President of the EastWest Institute and Head of its Conflict Prevention Program. He is a distinguished alumnus of the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin and the London School of Economics where he concentrated on History and Political Science. Prior to joining the EastWest Institute, he held diplomatic posts in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, with the German Representation to the European Commission in Brussels, the OSCE in Vienna, and in the Russian Federation. He has also served in the Office of the German Federal President as a foreign policy advisor. As an alumnus of the NATO Defense College in Rome, he specialized in arms control and security policy. Ambassador Hennig's last assignment before joining the EastWest Institute was as "Commissioner for Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post Conflict Peace Building" for the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. He has published on subjects such as arms control, the OSCE and conflict prevention.
Articles:
Where Do We Go from Here? Charting an Alternative Course for Afghanistan
