Angelika Rettberg

Angelika Rettberg is the dean of the School of Social Sciences and a professor at the Political Science Department at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá – Colombia). Her research has focused on the private sector as a political actor and, specifically, on business behavior in contexts of armed conflict and peacebuilding.

She has also been involved in research about other aspects of the political economy of armed conflict and peacebuilding, such as the relationship between legal resources, armed conflict, and crime as well as the dynamics of transitional justice and reconciliation.

In 2018 she served as a negotiator for the Colombian government in the peace talks with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). She regularly contributes to the public media on topics related to the Colombian peace process. She has also been a regular advisor and commentator on issues related to peace and peacebuilding at a global level. She is co-Editor-in-Chief at World Development journal (with Jampel Dell’Angelo).