Stephanie Fenkart MA has been Director of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna since 2016. She studied International Development at the University of Vienna and Human Rights at the Danube University Krems. She is a member of the Strategic and Security Policy Advisory Board of the Austrian Armed Forces Science Commission, a board member of the NGO Committee for Peace in Vienna and Chair of the Board of the Balkan Forum in Pristina, Kosovo. Her focus is on peace and security policy, European and foreign policy, arms control and disarmament as well as a regional focus on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. In June 2023, she was nominated by The Greens as an external expert for the development of the new Austrian Security Strategy. Together with the think tank Ponto, she moderates the podcast Peace Matters, among others
