Head, Ditchley Deutschland
Robin heads Ditchley Deutschland, the Ditchley Foundation’s Germany programme. This programme seeks to widen Ditchley’s contribution to the renewal of democratic states, societies and alliances. Its goal is to bring together representatives from politics, business, academia, journalism and civil society to work on the complex domestic, regional and global challenges facing Germany and its international partners.
Robin obtained a Master’s degree in Modern History from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil/PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He held a research fellowship at Harvard University’s Department of Government and a Max Weber fellowship in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Subsequently, he was a lecturer in the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School of Governance, where he continues to be a research fellow.
His interests range from international security, geopolitics and German foreign policy to the role of journalism and universities in the 21st century. His book Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He was awarded the International Security Best Book Award by the American Political Science Association, the Rupert Riedl Prize by the Club of Vienna and the Christiane Rajewsky Prize by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies. He was born and raised in rural southwest Germany.