9. March 2023

Julia-Silvana Hofstetter is a Senior Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation. She advises the foundation on digital peacebuilding, disinformation and hate-speech in armed conflict, humanitarian data governance, and cybersecurity & gender. She is also President and Founder of Women in International Security (WIIS) Switzerland and Co-Head of the Peace & Security Program at the Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy. She currently also serves as an Advisory Group member at Chatham House for a project on Cybersecurity & Gender and was a WIIS Global NextGen Fellow on Cybersecurity & Gender 2021/2022. She previously worked for the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), and the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Julia holds a Master in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva.
Recent publications include «Digital Technologies, Peacebuilding and Civil Society. Addressing Digital Conflict Drivers and Moving the Digital Peacebuilding Agenda Forward» (2021; Institute for Development and Peace), «Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Designing Conflict-Sensitive Strategy Documents at the National Level» (2022 GNWP & ICT4Peace).
Email: juliahofstetter@ict4peace.org
Twitter: @JSHofstetter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-silvana-hofstetter-5a16a1149/