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Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt

China Adviser/North East Asia Project Director
Beijing, China


Crisis Group role:

Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt joined Crisis Group in October 2007 as China Adviser and North East Asia Project Director. She supervises the work of a small team of analysts responsible for high quality research and analysis on North East Asia, with a focus on the role of China in conflict areas around the world.

Areas of expertise:

  • China and North East Asia
  • Chinese foreign policy
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • UN system

Professional background:

  • International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (2006-2007)
  • Various roles, including Officer-in-Charge of the Asia-Pacific Unit; China Program Manager; Desk Officer for South Korea, Japan, Mongolia and the Islamic Republic of Iran; and Desk Officer in the Africa Unit (responsible for Nigeria, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1996-2006)
  • Political Officer and Head of Field Delegation, OSCE Mission to Bosnia-and Herzegovina (1996)
  • Human Rights Field Officer, United Nations Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (1994-1995)
  • Legal Affairs Directorate, Council of Europe (1992-1993)
  • MA, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

Publications and media:

  • "Beijing, Global Free-Rider", Foreign Policy, 12 November 2009
  • "China's New Dictatorship Diplomacy", with Andrew Small, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008, Volume 87 No. 1 [Reprinted by permission of Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008. Copyright 2008 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.]
  • “Beijing cools on Mugabe”, International Herald Tribune, 3 May 2007
  • “China, the Unlikely Human Rights Champion,” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Policy Innovations, 14 February 2007
  • “China Jumps In”, International Herald Tribune, 2 February 2007
  • Eradicating Poverty:  One of the Gravest Human Rights Challenges of our Time, Keynote Address, Conference on “Human Rights, an Endangered Concept: The United Nations and the Advancement of Human Rights”, UN Association of America, North Carolina, 2007.
  • “From Principle to Practice:  Operationalising the human rights-based approach to United Nations development cooperation and programming, in C. Raj Kumar & D.K. Srivastava, eds., Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance, (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2006).
  • The Commission on Human Rights and Nigeria: From Pariah to Progress?” in Mool Chand Sharma and Raju Ramachandran, eds., Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law:  Essays in Honor of Soli J. Sorabjee (Universal Law Publishing, 2005).
  •  “The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education:  Role, Activities and Limitations of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,” in Julie Mertus and Jeff Helsing, eds., Human Rights and Conflict:  New Actors, Strategies and Ethical Dilemmas (United States Institute of Peace, 2004).
  • “The United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,” in Dinah L.  Shelton, ed., Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, 3 vols. (Macmillan reference USA, 2005).
  • The Protection Gap in the International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons:  the Case of Rwanda (2nd Ed.) (The Graduate Institute of International Studies, 2004).
  • “Rwanda,” in Hampton, Janie, eds., Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey, (Earthscan, Norwegian Refugee Council, 1998).
  • “Skeptical Nigerians Hope for Democracy,” Review of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Spring 1999, No. 14.
  • The Situation of the Greek Minority in Albania (Council of Europe, August 1993).

Languages:

  • English
  • Mandarin
  • French