Wolfgang Rudischhauser

Wolfgang Rudischhauser is Senior Fellow in the research area “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies” at the IFSH. He studied economics, and entered the German Federal Foreign Office in 1988. His diplomatic career included work in the Departments for Economics, United Nations and Arms Control and postings abroad i.a. at the Permanent Representation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Paris and Shanghai. From 2007 to 2017, he held various functions in Brussels in the field of Arms Control i.a. in the EU Council Secretariat, the European External Action Service (EEAS) as Chair of the Nonproliferation Committee, and at NATO Headquarters as Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Non-proliferation Centre. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Vice-president at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) and thereafter as German Consul General in Chengdu/PR China. Seconded since 2022 to the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, he moved on to IFSH in 2024.

Wolfgang Rudischhauser covers and is interested in a broad array of topics in the security policy realm. Having worked in various positions and institutions dealing with arms control and disarmament and security policy in the last nearly 20 years, as well as twice in China, his current research interests are linked to both the topics and the region: The rise of China politically and militarily in the past two decades, and growing geopolitical rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region between the superpowers, has created new challenges and risks. His current work will therefore focus on the impact, China’s military modernization and built-up as well as the introduction of new military technologies in the region will have on global and regional stability.

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