Monika Benkler
Name:
Monika Benkler
Function:
Senior Researcher
Team:
Team Policy, Partnerships & Innovation
E-Mail:
ppi@zif-berlin.org
Expertise | Responsibilities
- Peace operations and new technologies / Disinformation
- ZIF websites Missions & Mandates
- ZIF Peace Operations Update
about
Monika Benkler has been a senior researcher in the Analysis team since 2002 and in the newly established Policy, Partnerships and Innovation team since 2024. She was already involved in the initial study that led to the founding of ZIF. Previously, she worked as a desk officer in the sector advisory project ‘Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in German Development Cooperation’ at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). She also worked as a researcher in the Africa Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Monika Benkler has a Master's degree in Political Science/International Law and is a trained journalist.