Vita

Since December 2024, Jessica Noll is senior researcher in the project “Impact Hub - Integrated Effectiveness of Integrated Peace Engagement.” Between April 2020 and March 2024, she headed the project “Research and Knowledge Transfer Hub Security Sector Reform (SSR Hub)” at IFSH, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) to which she was seconded on a long-term basis to its unit “Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Assistance.” She is a PhD candidate at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. 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).

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In her academic research and policy work, Jessica Noll focuses on civil-military relations and international cooperation with countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Specifically, she studies the armed forces’ political and economic power in Egypt. She has also conducted research on corruption as a survival strategy of the Egyptian regime and examined the role of international donors in the field of anti-corruption. In addition, she has studied Arab military cooperation following the war in Yemen.

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