Christina Rupp

Christina Rupp leads interface’s work on international cybersecurity policy, focusing on EU cybersecurity policy and cyber diplomacy. At interface, she has previously conducted research on the implementation of UN cyber norms, governmental capabilities to detect cybersecurity threats, ENISA and the EU cybersecurity policy ecosystem, official public political attribution of cyber operations, software supply chain security, and Germany’s institutional cybersecurity architecture.

Christina has spoken at national and international conferences and events, including the United Nations in New York, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the European Cyber Diplomacy Dialogue, and the European Cyber Agora. She has also written commentaries and blog posts for the Directions Blog and Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity.

Before joining interface in 2020, Christina gained practical insights into policy-making and international relations at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York, the German Federal Ministry of Defense’s United Nations Unit, the Aspen Institute Germany, and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, among other institutions. She holds an M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, an LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, and a B.A. in Political Science, Sociology, and Public Law from the University of Bonn.