Dr Jessica Noll

Senior Researcher
Contact
Berlin

Vita

Since December 2024, Jessica Noll is senior researcher in the project Impact Hub: Integrated Efficacy of Integrated Action for Peace. Between 2020 and 2024, she headed the project Research and Knowledge Transfer Hub Security Sector Reform (SSR Hub) at IFSH, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office to which she was seconded on a long-term basis to its unit “Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Assistance.” Jessica Noll holds a doctoral degree in Economics and Social Sciences from the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, where she wrote her thesis on the role of the armed forces in state and society in Egypt. Before joining the IFSH, she worked for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP), Transparency International Defence and Security, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), and the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). 

Research profile

  • Civil-military relations
  • Security sector reform in conflict, post-conflict and transition states
  • International cooperation with countries in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Integrated peace operations 

Selected Publications