Karin Lisa von Hippel (born February 1965) is the current Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute.
Karin von Hippel | |
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Born | Karin Lisa von Hippel February 1965 (age 59) |
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Occupation(s) | Writer, diplomat |
Hippel was chief of staff to General John R. Allen while he was Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).[1][2]
Von Hippel is the author of Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (2000).[3][4]
Von Hippel holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MSt from Oxford, and a BA from Yale.[4]