Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard

Dr. Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard is a Norwegian political scientist and professor. She is an expert on children born of war (CBOW) and is the founder of the International Network of Interdisciplinary Research on Children Born of War (INIRC-CBOW) and chairwoman and managing director of the foundation Children Born of War Project (CBOW Project). She has published widely on the topic of children born of war for more than 20 years and has, among others, advised the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Global Survivors Fund, Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation, Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, Kindernothilfe, Society for Threatened Peoples, UNICEF, ICC, and the BAFTA award-winning mobile game “My Child Lebensborn.” Ødegaard graduated in comparative politics, economics and German at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Friedrich-Wilhelm- Universität, Bonn, Germany, and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Giessen, Germany, and a postdoctoral habilitation in the social sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany, on the topic of “Children Born of War.” She is presently also a partner in the ERC consolidator grant EuroWARCHILD at the Center for Gender Research at the University of Oslo and a member of the UNESCO-CODATA working group on “Data Policy for Times of Crises Facilitated by Open Science.”