international conflict and security

Managing Partners  | Associates  | Advisors  | Institutional Partners

David Nyheim

David is the Chief Executive of INCAS Consulting Ltd. He has extensive experience in dialogue process design and facilitation, stabilisation strategy development, early warning and risk assessment, and work on armed violence reduction. Prior to joining INCAS, he served for six years as the Director of the Forum for Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER) and held several policy and research positions in the European Commission and universities (Belgium and United Kingdom). As a consultant, David has worked for governments, United Nations agencies, and corporations in the North Caucasus, West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. He is trained in political science (McGill), public health (Louvain and LSHTM), and economics (London School of Economics). David is fluent in English, French, Norwegian, and Italian.

Anton Ivanov

Anton heads INCAS Russia and is Director of the FEWER-Eurasia Foundation in Moscow. He has consulted with Shell, BP, TNK-BP, UK and German governments as well as intergovernmental organisations on a range of projects such as reputation management and external stakeholder engagement in business, reconstruction and development analysis in the government sector, and community engagement and grassroots dialogue for conflict prevention in the nongovernmental sector. Anton received his PhD in social anthropology from IEA-RAS in 1996. Anton is fluent in English and Russian.

Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni has been an award winning author and foreign correspondent for two decades, reporting from several global conflicts and focused on human rights violations. She began her career during the first Palestinian intifada in Gaza and the West Bank; then went to the Balkans where she reported from Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia. She reported wars, political crisis, humanitarian disasters and genocides in Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kenya, Southern Sudan, Benin, Nigeria, Burkino Faso, Checnhya, Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, East Timor, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and many other places. Recently, she has been largely focused on the Arab Spring and has mainly been working in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya/ She has won four major journalistic awards including two times The Amnesty International Press Award and is a frequent analyst for CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC and other networks and radio stations. Her consulting projects are mostly focused on the Middle East, North Africa and Africa.