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Major Isabel Borkstett

Major Isabel Borkstett was born in 1983. She studied cultural studies, joined the Bundeswehr in 2007 and has a degree in political science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. After completing her officer training, she served as a Foreign Area Specialist in the Bundeswehr, where she designed the course “Gender Perspective in Operations”. She worked in the German Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) (department for Innere Führung) before joining the International Military Staff of NATO (current position D/GENAD). She completed training as a NATO-certified Gender Advisor in 2014, and as a UN Military Observer in 2019. In 2017, she was deployed as Foreign Area Specialist to EUNAVFOR MED operation “Sophia” in the Mediterranean Sea.

dgims.genad@hq.nato.int