Heiko Wimmen oversees Crisis Group’s Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project. Prior to joining Crisis Group, he was an associate researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. He has also published with the Carnegie Middle East Center and MERIP, and recently oversaw an edited academic volume on Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World.

Heiko, who is German, has lived in the region since 1994, mostly in Beirut where he currently resides.

• Domestic politics of Lebanon, Syrian civil war, post-war Iraq
• Sectarianism and identity politics in the Middle East
• Divided societies
• Social movements and political activism
• Civil society in post-conflict institution building
• EU policies towards the Arab world

• Fellow and research associate with German Institute for International and Security Affairs 2009-2015
• Project manager and deputy director of the Beirut Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2004-2009
• Professional fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2002-2004
• Independent Journalist and Broadcast Producer in Beirut, 1996-2002

• German
• English 
• Arabic
• French