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Paul Simon Handy
Senior Advisor, Institute for Security Studies

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Dr Paul-Simon Handy is a Senior Advisor to the ISS Regional Offices in Dakar and Addis Ababa. He first joined the ISS in 2007 and held various research and management positions, including division head, research director and acting deputy executive director. Between 2013 and 2018 he was on the UN Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic before rejoining the ISS in 2019. Paul-Simon is a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He held teaching positions at the Freie University of Berlin before acting as Associate Fellow with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin. Paul-Simon studied political science and international relations at the universities of Yaounde, Berlin and Leipzig where he obtained his PhD in 2005

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