Dr. Katja Niethammer

About

Dr Katja Niethammer has been the Deputy Director of ZIF since October 2023. Prior to this role, she led the Office for Migration and Integration of the City of Freiburg from 2016 to 2023. Katja Niethammer worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in missions across Africa and the Middle East, both as a delegate and in various leadership positions.

She holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and has taught at the University of Göttingen, Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Hamburg. She was a Post-Doc Fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and a Thyssen Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). She completed her studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Birzeit University in Ramallah.