Sebastian Dworack

Name: Sebastian Dworack
Function: Head
Team: Team Policy, Partnerships & Innovation

Expertise | Responsibilities

  • Advice and knowledge transfer on enhancing civilian capacities
  • Peace mediation and mediation support
  • Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
  • Strategic partnerships


About

Sebastian Dworack has headed the Policy, Partnerships & Innovation team since 2024. Previously, as Team Head International Capacity Development, he spent eight years developing and expanding the Peace Mediation/Mediation Support and Humanitarian Aid portfolios at ZIF and led the project ‘The African Union Civilian Standby Roster’ for four years. 

Sebastian Dworack is a political scientist and ‘seconded from the very beginning’: from 2002 to 2010, he worked in various leadership positions in OSCE and EU missions and institutions in the Western Balkans. He has also worked as a political consultant, mediator, trainer and lecturer in the field of conflict management in Germany, Austria, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova. He is a certified mediator and systemic organisational consultant.

 

Other Activities

  • Short- and Long-term election observer for OSCE