Sandra Ruckstuhl

Research Group Leader – Fragility, Conflict, Livelihoods and Water

Research team

Water, climate change and resilience > Climate policies, finance and processes

Areas of expertise

climate security climate risk disaster risk management humanitarian-development-peace nexus conflict and fragility displacement and migration governance social inclusion

Sandra Ruckstuhl is a Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader for the Fragility, Conflict, Livelihoods and Water research group.

Ruckstuhl worked in a series of roles as a Senior Social Inclusion and Governance Specialist for water sector programs at the World Bank, as a Technical Advisor on natural resources and conflict for inter-agency emergency response and development programs for the U.S. government, and as a Program Manager for urban and sub-national SDG initiatives at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. She has over two decades of experience in organizational and program management, investment operations and policy impact analysis, and applied social research for development and humanitarian interventions. Ruckstuhl has worked in more than 25 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Balkans.