Andrea Iff currently works in the Democracy Section of the Peace and Human Rights Division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The young section is mandated to develop foreign policy responses to the global rise in autocratization and support democratic resilience. Prior to this role, she served at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, where she focused on anticorruption, asset recovery and governance. Before joining the federal administration, she worked at swisspeace as a Senior Researcher in the Statebuilding and Business & Peace programs. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bern, where she also studied media and public law. Having navigated both applied policy work and academic research for many years, she underwent further training in facilitating dialogues to develop innovative approaches to complex challenges.
