Dr. Elvira Rosert
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Dr. Elvira Rosert is Head of Strategy at the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight. A political scientist specializing in International Politics, she was a professor of International Relations for nine years before moving to Munich. She held a junior professorship at the University of Hamburg and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), and was a visiting professor at the Dresden University of Technology and the Otto Suhr Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. From 2021 to 2024, Elvira Rosert served as co-speaker of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).
Rosert received her doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2016 with a dissertation on humanitarian arms control that she completed at the Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Her research and teaching activities have taken her to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and the United Nations in Geneva.
Elvira Rosert’s work focuses on questions of global order, international security, and armed conflict. Her research examines legal and institutional responses to cross-border threats to state and human security. She focuses in particular on the United Nations, the law of armed conflict, multilateral arms control, global health law, and European security. Her broader research interest concerns the conditions under which prevention, resilience-building, and strategic foresight can succeed in contexts marked by uncertainty, contingency, and resource scarcity.
Dr. Rosert’s research has been published in leading English- and German-language journals, including Contemporary Security Policy, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, and Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. In 2022, she received the Bernard Brodie Best Article Prize together with Frank Sauer for their work on the regulation of autonomous weapon systems.
Building on her policy-oriented research, Elvira Rosert has long been active in policy advice and public engagement. She has advised the German Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Defence on arms control issues, as well as the Federal Chancellery, political parties, and municipal decision-makers on national and European pandemic management. She regularly contributes to public debates on international politics through media interviews, public lectures, panel discussions, and newspaper commentary. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in major German-language newspapers such as Der Tagesspiegel, die tageszeitung, Der Standard, and Die Zeit.
Elvira Rosert was born in Vilnius and moved to Germany as a teenager. She speaks Russian, English, and French, and understands Lithuanian.
Dr. Elvira Rosert
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
85577 Neubiberg
email: elvira.rosert@unibw.de