Hannes Ebert is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. He currently investigates strategies of leadership and contestation in South Asia within the GIGA research project “Contested Leadership in International Relations: Power Politics in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America”.

Hannes recently served as associate research fellow at the China Study Centre of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. His previous work experience includes analyzing armed conflicts in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; investigating learning mechanisms in UN peace operations at the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin; and researching security governance in Pakistan at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs and the Collaborative Research Center 700 (SFB). He also worked as a research associate and program coordinator at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies.

Hannes holds a master’s in international relations theory from the London School of Economics and completed his undergraduate studies in political science at the Freie Universität in Berlin. As part of his studies at the FU, he spent a year abroad at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development in Geneva. He has received scholarships from the VolkswagenStiftung, German National Academic Foundation, Theodor Pfizer Foundation and the Swiss government.