Sebastiaan rejoined the Clingendael Institute as an Academy Programme Fellow in 2022, after having interned at the institute in 2019. In the meantime Sebastiaan worked as a public sector consultant helping various international organizations, ministries, local governments and semi-governmental organizations, always focusing on strategy, transition and public value creation.

Ornella Moderan is an Research Associate Fellow with Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit. Her work focuses on political and security dynamics in the Sahel and West Africa. She has an acute interest in gender and women’s agency in the (re)production of violence, and her work is guided by an intersectional feminist commitment to examining power relations.

Moneera Yassien is a Junior Research Fellow with the Conflict Research Unit (CRU) of Clingendael. She contributes to the work of the Horn of Africa team as an economist and data analyst.

She is particularly interested in using qualitative and quantitative methods, to research the economic development in fragile states and the role of conflict and fragility in shaping the different elements of country’s economic and political development.

Grace Ellis is a Junior Researcher at Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit (CRU) where she contributes to CRU’s Sahel programme.

Francesco Mascini has been an Associate Fellow at the Clingendael Institute since November 2021. He has joined Clingendael after a long career as a Dutch diplomat working in Africa and conflict areas, like the Great Lakes Region and the Palestinian Territories.