Silke Weinlich

Silke Weinlich is the Deputy Director, Learning and Knowledge Services at the United Nations System Staff College. 

Prior to joining UNSSC, she worked extensively on issues related to UN processes and reforms ranging from peacekeeping and peacebuilding to sustainable development.  

Her research interests have focused on the reform of the UN development system and broader questions of multilateral development, as well as global governance with particular focus on sustainable development. 

Prior to her appointment with UNSSC, Weinlich was Senior Researcher at IDOS, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability, where she led a research and policy advice project on the UN development system and its reform needs.  

Before joining IDOS, she helped set up the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen where she headed the research unit called “The (im)possibility of cooperation”. 

Silke holds a doctorate in political science, with a specialization in international relations, from Bremen University, and a Master’s in Political Science from the Free University Berlin. A German national, she is married with two children.