Prof Dr Anita Gohdes

Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School

Contact:: gohdes@hertie-school.org

Anita R. Gohdes is Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School in Berlin. She works at the intersection of international security and technology.

Anita R. Gohdes is Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School in Berlin. She works at the intersection of international security and technology, and is the author of the book “Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence”, published with Oxford University Press and recipient of the 2024 Goldsmith Book Prize. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Zurich, and postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s International Security Program. Since 2009, she has worked for the California-based non-profit organisation Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She has advised the German Federal Foreign Office, and has consulted for the World Bank and the United Nations on security and state fragility. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Nature Human Behaviour, among others.