President and Co-Founder of the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)

Marie-Christine Heinze holds a master in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, and International and European Law (University of Bonn) and a master in Peace and Security Studies (University of Hamburg).

Her PhD thesis on material culture (focusing on the Yemeni dagger, the janbiya) and socio-political change in Yemen in the field of Social Anthropology (University of Bielefeld) was completed in 2015.

Since 2008, she has regularly worked as a consultant on development, peacebuilding and political change in Yemen. Next to her responsibilities as President of CARPO, she leads on the implementation of projects focusing on conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding in Yemen.

She is editor of the book Yemen and the Search for Stability. Power, Politics and Society After the Arab Spring (I.B. Tauris 2018) and of the Jemen-Report, the annual magazine oft he German-Yemeni Society, and publishes regularly on Yemen.