Bente Aika Scheller has been country director of HBS Afghanistan since October 2008. Before joining HBS, she spent two years working for the German foreign office at the German embassy in Damascus, Syria taking care of political affairs. Later on, she worked as senior program officer for Syria at the Aspen Institute Berlin. Ms Scheller studied political science, Spanish and Latin American studies as well as Arabic. She specializes in foreign and security policy and holds a PhD in political sciences from Free University of Berlin.
Bente Scheller frequently comments on current affairs in the German media. In 2009, she did a conflict portrait of Afghanistan for the Federal Center for Political Education (link:http://www.bpb.de/) in Germany in 2009. She represented HBS Kabul in the World Economic Forum in Krynica (link:http://www.forum-ekonomiczne.pl/433,19th+Economic+Forum) in 2009 as moderator of the Afghanistan panel and she participated in the German Marshall Fund's (link: www.gmfus.org) prestigious Brussels Forum (link www.brusselsforum.org) in March 2010."
