Ingvild is a Junior Research Fellow at NUPI and works on Africa-Nordic Cooperation in the Research group for Peace, Conflict and Development. She holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen. Her master thesis explored France and the EU's security engagements in Mali and her interests include conflict, peace operations, security policy, statebuilding and humanitarian efforts. 

She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Global Development from Stockholm University and has previously served as an intern at the UN World Food Programme, the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York as well as the Norwegian Refugee Council.