Andrea Iff is Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator of Business & Peace at swisspeace. She holds a PhD in political science from the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern (2009), where she also earned her Master's degree in Political Science, Media Science and Public Law. Before joining the University of Bern as a scientific assistant, she worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Swiss Federal Government and at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Zurich. Before entering the field of Business & Peace, she worked mainly on institutions and conflict transformation. She has studied with Prof. Ronald L. Watts at Queen's University, Kingston in Canada and consulted Berghof Foundation on the question of federalism and decentralization in Sri Lanka. Her PhD on "Peace preserving federalism - making sense of India and Nigeria" will be published in 2010.