Ambassador Ortwin Hennig is Vice President and Head of the Conflict Prevention Programme for the EastWest Institute. He is an alumnus of the Free University of Berlin, the London School of Economics and the NATO Defense College in Rome. Prior to joining EWI, Ambassador Hennig held diplomatic posts in Afghanistan and Russia and with the German Representation to the European Commission and the OSCE in Vienna. He has served in the Office of the German Federal President as a Foreign Policy Advisor. Ambassador Hennig's last assignment before joining EWI was as Commissioner for Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace Building for the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Ambassador Hennig has published extensively on the subjects of arms control, the OSCE and conflict prevention.