Helmut Ganser, Brigadier General (ret.) works as an expert and consultant on the topics of multilateral security policy as well as bilateral and multilateral negotiations. He holds a diploma in Psychology and one in Political Sciences from the University of Hamburg. Before getting retired in 2008 he worked for 13 years at the intersection between politics and military at the German Ministry of Defence as well as for NATO and OSZE. He was a lecturer at German Military Academy (“Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr”) in Hamburg. He is author of several articles for journals and contributed chapters to a number of anthologies.