Nico is head of programme for the UN’s global humanitarian fund, CERF and a visiting scientist with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Previously, he worked on evaluations of humanitarian programmes, on coordinating development programmes in Palestine, humanitarian funds in the Central African Republic, Somalia, Yemen and Haiti, and for the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, in the Central African Republic and Geneva.
He holds a Master’s degree in political science from the University of North Texas, and a Master’s and PhD, both in politics and public administration, from the University of Konstanz.
He has co-authored articles on forecasting displacement, humanitarian financing, risk assessment for human rights violations, genocide and civil war, among other subjects, in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, International Journal of Forecasting, and other journals.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and their three sons.
Trapped in a Vicious Circle: Authoritarianism, Repression, and Civil War
Nomos, 2012
