Lukas Krienbühl holds a licence in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and an MA in international security and conflict studies from Dublin City University. He worked for the magazine MARKET.ch before joining swisspeace in 2009 as communication assistant. After a year as Mercator Fellow on international affairs working on conflict-sensitive design of international electoral assistance with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Sweden, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Guinea and the Political Division IV of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland, he became in 2011 Head of Communication at swisspeace and is responsible for the monthly KOFF Newsletter.