Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner (b. 1982) is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) and Principal Investigator at ConTrust. As a comparative political scientist, she focuses on autocracies and democratization as well as protests and social movements with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Ms. Weipert-Fenner holds a doctorate in political science from Goethe University. For her dissertation "The Autocratic Parliament. Power and Norm Dynamics in Egypt, 1866 -2011", she received the dissertation prize of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in 2014.
