About Constance
Professional Experience
Constance Wilhelm-Olympiou is an experienced researcher and public and humanitarian policy consultant, specialising in conflict-affected areas and fragile states. She has worked with think tanks at Princeton University and New York University, with the Afghan Mission to the UN in New York, the OECD, as well as with humanitarian, international development, and strategic consulting and evaluation organisations. She has led teams and projects in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Libya, as well as across both the Horn of Africa and the Sahel-Lake Chad region. Constance has an MA in Conflict Management and International Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS. She is currently a doctoral researcher with the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where she is writing her thesis on France's security and legal responses to female Daesh returnees in France.
Education
Constance is currently a Doctoral Researcher at King's College London. She earned her Bachelor's Degree with Distinction in Philosophy, Anthropology, and Political Science from McGill University in Canada, and her Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC. She also studied abroad for a year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Background and Interests
Constance was born in Paris, France and has been on the move ever since - raised in the U.S., she has lived and worked in 10 countries and counting. In her free time, she is an amateur musician, and dabbles in violin, piano, guitar, and voice. She is based in Athens, Greece.