Tobias von Lossow is a Research Fellow at Clingendael’s EU and Global Affairs Research Unit and a member of the Critical Resources Programme. His expertise is on water and security, conflict and cooperation in transboundary river basins, hydro-politics, weaponization of water, natural resource management, and socio-economic development. He works on the role of water in domestic and foreign policy making and on the role of water in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Since 2021, Tobias is an Affiliate Researcher at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education with a focus on water and security. Since 2012 he is a lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU). At the Department of Political and Social Sciences he teaches courses on water and conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
At the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) / German Institute for International and Security Affairs in the Research Division Middle East and Africa he has been working on water issues for more than ten years (2008-2017). Between 2008 and 2014 he was coordinating the Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR). Since 2012 he is member of the Advisory Council of the Next Generation Leaders Program at the Arizona State University (ASU) and the McCain Institute.
A list of selected publications can be found here.
