Tobias Gerber is an MSc student in Politics Research at Wolfson College, Oxford. His research interests centre on international security and foreign policy analysis, with a particular focus on how leaders shape decisions to use or threaten force.
Before coming to Oxford, Tobias graduated summa cum laude from Webster Vienna Private University with a BA in International Relations. His thesis, Leadership Traits and their Role in Militarized Dispute Initiation, examined how leaders’ psychological characteristics relate to the likelihood of using or threatening force, and received the Schön Nobel Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis at Webster Vienna. During his undergraduate studies, he was also a visiting student at Harvard University, taking courses in both the Government Department and the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he focused on international security and the determinants of foreign policy outcomes, including through Professor Alastair Iain Johnston’s PhD-level seminar, “Comparative Foreign and Security Policy.”
Tobias has also gained professional experience at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York, where he observed deliberations of the Security Council, General Assembly, and ECOSOC. In addition, he worked in the Strategy Unit of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.
