Fouzieh Melanie Alamir is a political scientist. She began her career as a research associate at the University of the Federal Armed Forces (in Hamburg, and as a lecturer at the German Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College  in 1997. In 2001, she moved to the German Federal Ministry of Defense as an desk officer in the military policy department. As head of the sector program “Security Sector Reform”, she worked at the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) from 2004 to 2006. This was followed by a position as “Comprehensive Security” program manager at IABG mbH from 2006 to 2011. After a period as an independent consultant, from 2013 to 2015 Ms. Alamir ran the “Security Sector” center of competence at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Since October 2015, she has been working as portfolio manager for GIZ in Pakistan. Her engagements have taken her to Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia and Sudan, among others. At the end of 2006, she worked as a political adviser to the NATO Senior Civilian Representative at ISAF HQ in Kabul.

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