Mareike Schomerus is Vice President at the Busara Center, Research Director of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, the former Director of Programme of the Politics and Governance Programme and  a Senior Research Fellow at ODI.

She is a widely published researcher with a body of work on violent conflict, political contestation and peace processes in South Sudan and Uganda and across borders, as well as behavioural mechanisms in post-conflict recovery. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Master’s Degrees from Columbia University and the University of Bremen. 

Mareike's LinkedIn profile is here.