Experts & Staff
Jonas Horner

Jonas Horner

Visiting Fellow, Africa Programme

Areas of expertise

Security Sector Reform, post-conflict transitions, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), Sudan, South Sudan, Horn of Africa

Languages

English, German

Biography

Jonas Horner is a visiting fellow of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He writes and provides advisory input on conflict, politics, and regional geopolitics in Sudan and the Horn of Africa.

Prior to joining ECFR, Horner was deputy director for the Horn of Africa and senior analyst for Sudan with the International Crisis Group, the Middle East regional conflict advisor for Mercy Corps, coordinator of the UN task team on conflict prevention, and EU technical advisor on stabilisation and peacebuilding in Sudan and South Sudan. He also ran the UN peacebuilding programmes in Sudan’s border areas with South Sudan, was the Africa analyst with Eurasia Group, and Nigeria researcher for the Small Arms Survey.

Horner has a master’s in international policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from the University of New South Wales.

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