Heiko Nitzschke
Heiko Nitzschke works in the Policy Planning Unit of the German Foreign Office. Previously, he served in the Security Council team at the German Mission in New York; as Deputy Head of Mission in Sudan; Political Affairs Officer with the UN Mission in Sudan; and Desk Officer for UN Peacekeeping in Berlin. Before that, he worked at the International Peace Academy (now International Peace Institute) in New York. He is co-editor of ‘Profiting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimension of Armed Conflict’ and has published on the political economy of civil war, peacekeeping and Sudan.