Annika Hilding Norberg is Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (executive education, policy applicable research, seminars and dialogues). She serves on the International Leadership Association Board of Directors and the Geneva Peace Forum International Advisory Council. Before joining the GCSP, she was Founding Director of the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations for 21 years, a joint platform of 22 countries, incl the UN SC P5 Members, based at the London School of Economics (LSE) 1996-2000, Swedish National Defence College1997-2002 and Folke Bernadotte Academy 2003-2017. She holds a BSc in International Relations (IR) from LSE, served as President of the LSE IR Society, and an MA in International Politics from Free University of Brussels. She pursued Research studies at the LSE 1996-2000. In 2008, she received the Silver Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences for her contributions to UN peacekeeping.