Timo Noetzel is a Research Group Leader at the Centre of Excellence at Konstanz University. He is also a Fellow of the Stiftung neue Verantwortung, Berlin and Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Previously, he was a TAPIR Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin and Chatham House. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a parliamentary aide in the German Bundestag. Over the last few years he has been a political advisor to the German Army at ISAF Regional Command North, HQ ISAF and Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum. He has authored articles on issues of defence and security policy that have been published in International Affairs, Survival, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Financial Times, among other outlets. He received his BA (Hons) in European Politics from the Queen’s University, Belfast, and his MPhil and (supervised by Professor Hew Strachan) DPhil in Politics from St Antony’s College, Oxford.

(Current as of Jan 2011.)