Annika Hansen

Annika is a Programme Associate for Geopolitics at Ditchley, working primarily on Ditchley Germany initiatives and wider European engagement. 

Her background is in defence and security, having previously worked as a research associate for Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ben Hodges researching Russian war crimes in Ukraine, as a strategic project assistant at the Munich Security Conference managing events on averting nuclear proliferation and bioweapons incidents, and as a research intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, where she focused on the impact of climate change on armed forces and wider defence and regional stability in the Middle East. She holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are intra-alliance bargaining, peace mediation under multipolarity, and political psychology, having previously written her Masters’ theses on NATO’s changing internal power dynamics, and Qatar’s strategic rise in global peace mediation. Hailing originally from Wiesbaden, Germany, she has lived in the UK for 10 years, is by now well-versed in talking about the weather, and one day hopes to also master the correct tea-to-milk ratio.