David Kipp, Dipl.-Pol.

David Kipp, Dipl.-Pol.


Research Division: Global Issues
Associate (on leave of absence)

David.Kipp(at)swp-berlin.org

Since 2016 Researcher in the project “Forced Displacement, Migration, and Development”

2009-2015 Advisor to Members of the German Bundestag, Berlin

2008 Research and Programme Coordinator, Development and Peace Foundation, Bonn

2008-2009 Project Assistant, Germany Close Up - Germany Close Up American Jews Meet, Berlin

2002-2007 studies of political science, Otto-Suhr-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

Areas of Expertise:

Development cooperation, Justice and Home Affairs in the EU, Migration policy


SWP Publications (selection):

David Kipp, Nadine Knapp, Amrei Meier

Negative Sanctions and the EU’s External Migration Policy

“Less for Less” Not Fit for Purpose

SWP Comment 2020/C 34, June 2020, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C34

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Sinem Adar, Steffen Angenendt, Muriel Asseburg, Raphael Bossong, David Kipp

The Refugee Drama in Syria, Turkey, and Greece

Why a Comprehensive Approach Is Needed

SWP Comment 2020/C 16, April 2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C16

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Nadine Biehler, David Kipp

Alternatives to Refugee Camps

Cities Need International Support for Receiving Forcibly Displaced People

SWP Comment 2019/C 49, December 2019, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C49

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David Kipp

From Exception to Rule – the EU Trust Fund for Africa

SWP Research Paper 2018/RP 13, December 2018, 27 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Steffen Angenendt, David Kipp, Amrei Meier

Mixed migration

Challenges and options for the ongoing project of German and European asylum and migration policy

Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.), May 2017, 60 pages

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

David Kipp

Europe struggles to find common migration policy

Interview with David Kipp

In: DW News, 09.07.2019 (online).
David Kipp, Melanie Müller

EU Migration Policy Bears No Relation to Reality

The EU is operating in crisis mode as regards migration policy, focusing above all on containment – wrongly, as David Kipp and Melanie Müller argue. They identify four factors that should be involved in a factual debate about sustainable migration policy.

Point of View, 28.11.2018
David Kipp

EU Migration Policy

DWnews on the latest news in the EU Migration Debate - the situation of the Lifeline in the Mediterranean Sea, the ongoing conflict within the German Government and the new EU policy towards refugees. Interview with David Kipp.

Interview, in: DWnews, 26.06.2018 (online)
David Kipp

Migration study: Europe needs to understand the African context

How far should the EU go to reach its migration agenda? Researchers in Berlin looked at the cooperation between the EU and authoritarian states in Africa.

Interview by Jane Nyingi, in: Deutsche Welle, 21.04.2018 (online)