Bernhard Knoll-Tudor, often referred to as Bernhard Knoll, is adjunct professor of public international law at the Hertie School in Berlin, and directs its Executive Education Department. He is interested in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and its activities, and was a member of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Biography Prior to 2006, Knoll was involved in the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and then the OSCE Mission to Kosovo from 2000 to 2002. He then worked with UNMIK.
In 2006, Knoll served as a Special Advisor to the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), where he was an elections monitor in 2007. He also advised Janez Lenarcic when the latter became the incoming Director of the ODIHR in 2008.
Knoll's 2008 doctoral thesis, published by Cambridge University Press, attracted scholarly attention.
In March 2009, Knoll noted the significance of neither the SRSG nor the United Nations Security Council pronouncing Kosovo's declaration of independence a violation of Resolution 1244.
Knoll was an OSCE elections monitor at the 2012 Russian Federation elections.
In January 2013, Knoll became an academic at the Central European University in Budapest, where he directed the Global Policy Academy.
Knoll was mentioned as a historian in the final report of UNMIK, and was cited extensively in many papers on the subject of UNMIK.
In November and December 2020, Knoll wrote about the role of the European Union in post-war Karabakh. He also wrote in February 2021 about a possible role for the OSCE there.
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