Areas of Expertise

• Security Policy
• Transnational Organized Crime
• Stability
• Resilience

Academic Degrees

• Habilitation, Social Anthropology, Leipzig University
• Ph.D., Social Anthropology, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris
• Master of Development Sociology, Strasbourg University
• Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Ouagadougou University

German Lt. Col. Youssouf Diallo joined the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in October 2020. He is a military professor of security studies and serves as the deputy course director of the Program on Applied Security Studies.

Prior to joining the Marshall Center, Diallo was a lecturer at Bielefeld University, Germany, and a senior scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. After his habilitation, he held teaching assignments at the University of Leipzig and the University of Göttingen, Germany, and was a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Zurich.

Diallo also served as a lecturer at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the Leadership Development and Civic Center. He was a cultural advisor at the German Armed Forces Operational Communication Center. In addition, he attended the Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management Course at the German Armed Forces United Nations Training Center in Wildflecken. In 2015 and 2016, he served as a cultural advisor to the European Union Naval Force – Mediterranean.

In addition to his academic work, Diallo served at the German Federal Ministry of Defense as a member of the interministerial working group on diversity and inclusion for the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration. He also represented Germany in the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s research group on military diversity. He later served as a liaison officer at the Federal Foreign Office.