Nelleke van de Walle Project Director, Great Lakes Please submit all media inquiries to nvandewalle@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71. Crisis Group Role Nelleke van de Walle is the project director for the Great Lakes region, covering Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. She joined Crisis Group in April 2019 and is based in Nairobi. Professional Background Prior to joining Crisis Group, Nelleke was a Dutch diplomat in The Hague and Kinshasa and worked for the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in the DRC. She was a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and worked for a major consultancy firm in Kenya. She holds master’s degrees in both History and International Relations from the University of Groningen and received a scholarship for a postgraduate course at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations. Languages Dutch English French Swahili (basic) Latest Updates Q&A / Africa 25 August 2022 East Africa’s DR Congo Force: The Case for Caution Also available in Français Podcast / Africa 14 July 2022 End of Season Special: Ethiopia, Kenya-DRC and the Drought Podcast / Africa 13 May 2022 A Perilous Free-for-all in the Eastern DR Congo? Podcast / Africa 01 April 2021 Tshisekedi Consolidates Power in DR Congo Q&A / Africa 18 March 2021 Understanding the New U.S. Terrorism Designations in Africa Op-Ed / Africa 10 July 2019 AU Heads of State Summit needs to whip Nkurunziza back into line Load more