
Alexander Sievers
Senior Practitioner and Programme Director, Violence Prevention Network, INDEX
2024, 2025
Alexander Sievers is an accomplished practitioner and counselor with a diverse background in violence prevention, deradicalization, addiction treatment and social management. Beginning his professional career at the Hoffnungstaler Stiftung Lobetal in 2015, he worked as a social worker and social therapist in inpatient addiction help until 2017. Since then, Alexander has been dedicated to Violence Prevention Network, focusing on counseling, training and further education in deradicalization and the prevention of violence and radicalism, in and outside the prison system. Furthermore, Alexander teaches Social Work at the IU – Internationale Hochschule.
Since September 2024 Alexander Sievers is the Director for INDEX, the International Network for Disengagement and Exit – a professional association for tertiary prevention practitioners in P/CVE.
Academically Alexander pursued the studies from 2008 to 2010 in economics at the Technical University of Berlin, followed by a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from 2010 to 2015. He recently completed a Master of Arts in Social Management, specializing in Management and Leadership in Social Work, in 2023.
In addition to his primary roles, Alexander has been contributed to various organizations, including the Drug-Therapy-Centrum Berlin and Count Down (Rehab Hospital), fostering a strong commitment to helping individuals facing addiction and rehabilitating those impacted by violence. His practical experience is complemented by internships, including a position with the Berlin Police in the Criminal Police Department.
At the Summit

This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
