February 23, 2012
Fellows
Philip Andrews-Speed is an independent energy policy analyst and Associate Fellow of Chatham House. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. The focus of his research has been on energy policy, regulation and reform in China, and on the interface between energy policy and international relations. His book, with Roland Dannreuther, entitled China, Oil and Global Politics was published by Routledge in May 2011, and he is completing a book entitled The Governance of Energy in China. Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy to be published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012. He is currently leading a major European Union, Framework 7 Programme project on “Competition and Collaboration in Access to Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources”.
Corey Johnson is the Academy’s Joachim Herz Fellow for 2011-2012. He is an assistant professor of geography at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and holds a B.A. in German and geography from the University of Kansas. His research is focused on the political, cultural, and economic geography of Europe, Germany and its neighbors; more specifically the impacts of globalization and European integration on the political organization of space. For this project he is interested in three interrelated questions: 1) In what ways have struggles over energy and pipeline projects in Eurasia been framed in classical geopolitical terms by governments, corporations, and media? 2) Using the specific example of Germany, what geopolitical logics and strategies are being deployed, and by whom, to ensure access to energy sources? 3) Given the emergence of a vastly more complicated and comprehensive network of pipelines across Eurasia, as well as renewed interest in LNG as a means of moving gas to markets, what alternative geopolitical visions for Eurasia are possible?
Tim Boersma is a Ph.D. student at Groningen University in the Netherlands, where his research focuses on EU energy security. He is also affiliated with the Dutch national gas company, Gasterra. His dissertation deals with energy policy coordination within the EU, and the problem of too many decisions being made at the wrong level of EU policy making. While at the Academy he will undertake a comparative analysis of U.S. and EU gas infrastructure regulatory regimes, and the ways in which they impact the appetite for investment on both sides of the Atlantic.
Stacy VanDeveer is an associate professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, served as on-site Director of the UNH London Program at Regents College and was the Interim Director of the UNH Center for International Education in the first half of 2010. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the role of expertise in policymaking, the politics of consumption and environmental and human rights degradation in global commodities markets, and the inclination of global markets to push ecological damage and humanitarian degradation out of sight of consumers and their political representatives. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over fifty articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he co-edited six books: Comparative Environmental Politics (MIT Press, forthcoming); The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy (CQ Press, 2010); Changing Climates in North American Politics (MIT Press, 2009); Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (Ashgate, 2009); EU Enlargement and the Environment (Routledge, 2005); and Saving the Seas (1997).
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~sdv/
Geoffrey Kemp is Director of Regional Security Programs at the Center for the National Interest. He served in the White House during the first Reagan administration as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. Dr. Kemp received his Ph.D. in political science at M.I.T. and his M.A. and B.A. degrees from Oxford University. His areas of focus include the Arab- Israeli Conflict, Iraq, Iran, Energy Security and Asia, the Caspian Basin, and the Geopolitics of the Middle East. He frequently comments and writes on US foreign policy in the US, European, Middle East, and East Asian media including recent publications The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East, Brookings Institution Press (2010) and Iran and Iraq: The Shia Connection, Soft Power, and the Nuclear Factor, United States Institute of Peace(2005). This year he will focus on maritime security, energy supplies and proliferation, with an emphasis on the Indian Ocean region.
Raimund Bleischwitz is an economist with PhD and ‘Habilitation’ and works as Co-Director of the Research Group ‘Material Flows and Resource Management’ at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and lecturer at the University of Wuppertal. Raimund has fifteen years plus experience in research on sustainability, resource efficiency, incentive systems, environmental and resource economics, and raw material conflicts. He has published ten books and some 200 articles, including his latest books The International Economics of Resource Efficiency (Springer Publisher 2010) and Sustainable Resource Management (Greenleaf Publisher 2009 with Stefan Bringezu). This year he will focus his research on the resources required for developing green industries, with a particular look at China’s role as a supplier of essential materials.
András Rácz is an expert on EU Foreign and Security Policy, the European Neighborhood Policy, and the Post-Soviet region, and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. He also lectures at the Department of International Studies at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest. Previously he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University and the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Modern History and International Relations from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Stormy-Annika Mildner is a member of the Executive Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a policy-oriented think-tank based in Berlin. Her fields of interest include international trade and finance as well as commodity markets. For the last two years, Mrs. Mildner headed the SWP research project “Competition for Scarce Resources” and published an edited volume on “Konfliktrisiko Rohstoffe? Herausforderungen und Chancen im Umgang mit knappen Ressourcen” in spring 2011. She has advised the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on several occasions and has worked together with the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) on various projects focusing on natural resources and transatlantic trade issues. She regularly teaches classes on international economics at the Hertie School of Governance and the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
David Humphreys is an independent mining sector consultant based in London and a non-executive director of Petropavlovsk plc. David was for four years chief economist of Norilsk Nickel, Russia’s largest mining company, and for eight years chief economist at global miner, Rio Tinto. Prior to joining Rio Tinto, David worked for nine years in UK government service, for six of these as an advisor on minerals policy. David has written and lectured extensively on the economics of the mining industry, authoring over one hundred and fifty articles and papers on subjects ranging from commodity markets, trends in the mining sector, speculation, sustainable development, Russian mining, the impact of China on mining, and national minerals policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Colorado School of Mines and the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago and is an honorary lecturer at the University of Dundee. He has a bachelor's degree and PhD from the University of Wales.
National University of Singapore
Political Science
Professor Kim holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and Diplomatic Affairs from Yonsei University. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade: From the GATT to the WTO (2010, Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press). As a Transatlantic Academy Fellow, Professor Kim is pursuing research on trade relations between the transatlantic community and Asian countries, as part of a larger research project on the politics of Asia's trade agreements. Professor Kim was a Fellow of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She will join the National University in Singapore in 2011 as Associate Professor of Political Science.
Johns Hopkins University
Political Science
Daniel Deudney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Senate and a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. His most recent book is Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. The book received the 2008 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award for the Best Book on International History and Politics, and received the Book of the Decade Award from the International Studies Association. Professor Deudney specializes in international relations theory, political theory and international relations, and contemporary global issues (nuclear, environment, space and energy).
George Washington University
Political Science
James Goldgeier is the incoming Dean of the School of International Service at American
University. He is currently Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and
former Director of GWU’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. In 1995-96, he
was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving at the State Department
and on the National Security Council staff. His most recent book is America Between the Wars:
From 11/9 to 9/11 (co-authored with Derek Chollet).
University of Trier
Political Science and History
Hanns W. Maull is Professor and Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations, University of Trier, Political Science and History, and one of Germany’s leading academic foreign policy analysts, working on both contemporary German foreign policy and European-Asian relations. Professor Maull is Chairman,. Scientific Advisory Board, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin and Deputy Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board of the German Council of Foreign Relations.
Ruhr University Bochum
International relations and Political Science
Stefan A. Schirm is Professor of Political Science at the Ruhr University of Bochum, where he holds the Chair of International Politics. Previously he taught at the Universities of Munich and Stuttgart, was a Research Associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, and served as J. F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. His publications include Globalization and the New Regionalism (Polity Press 2002), New Rules for Global Markets (ed., Palgrave 2004), Globalization. State of the Art and Perspectives (ed., Routledge 2007), `Ideas and Interests in Global Financial Governance: Comparing German and US Preference Formation’, in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2009), and `Leaders in Need of Followers: Emerging Powers in Global Governance’, in: European Journal of International Relations (2010). For more information, please see www.rub.de/lsip
CERI, Institute of Political Sciences (Science Po)
Political Science
Iskander Rehman is currently a PhD candidate at CERI, Institute of Political Sciences (Science Po) in Paris and a Research Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy. Former Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in Delhi; he has contributed on strategic matters for BBC World, The Guardian, and the South Asian news channel ANI. In 2008, he received a two year grant from the French Ministry of Defense, for which he has also served in an advisory capacity. His research focuses on Indian and Chinese naval strategy, the Sino-Indian security dynamic, Asian maritime disputes and US force doctrine and posture in the WPTO.
Deutsche Bank AG
Director of International Financial Market Policy
Steffen Kern is Director for International Financial Market Policy at Deutsche Bank, focusing on international financial market integration and cross-border regulatory convergence between the EU, the US and with countries in Asia and Latin America. Mr. Kern is a member of various official and industry advisory groups on international financial market regulation, and has published widely on the related issues. Prior to his current position he served as executive assistant to the CEO of Deutsche Bank Group, following eight years as senior economist for European financial market policy and integration.
He holds academic degrees in economics, politics and philosophy from the universities of Oxford (Great Britain) and Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and is a lecturer in international finance at the University of Mainz (Germany).
Research Fellow, Turin University
Lecturer in International Relations of East Asia, Milan Catholic University
Dr. Andornino is a Lecturer in International Relations of East Asia at the University of Torino and the Catholic University of Milan. He researches International Relations theory, as well as the International Relations of East Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Andornino is the Vice President of the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai) and the General Editor of TheChinaCompanion, one of the most comprehensive websites on the politics and economics of contemporary China (www.thechinacompanion.eu).
A former Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University (P.R.China), Dr. Andornino holds academic degrees from Milan Catholic University and the London School of Economics, where he was awarded the McKenzie Prize for academic excellence
Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics, IDEAS
Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Economics, Asia Research Center
Martin Jacques is a British writer and author of When China Rules the World – The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order. He will be in residence from Nov. 29- Feb. 11. He is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, IDEAS, a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy, and a visiting research fellow at the LSE’s Asia Research Centre.
U.S. Trust- Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist
Joe Quinlan is the managing director and chief market strategist at U.S. Trust — Bank of America Private Wealth Management. He will be in residence from December 6-February 1.
His research is frequently cited in such media venues as Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times. With nearly 20 years of financial services experience, Mr. Quinlan most recently served as a senior global economist/strategist for Morgan Stanley. He started his career with Merrill Lynch. He lectures on finance and global economics at New York University, where he has been a faculty member since 1992.
Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations
Otto Wolff- Director
Eberhard Sandschneider is Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations and will be in residence January 17-February 14. He graduated from the Saar University, Saarbrücken in 1981 in English Language and Literature, Latin, History and Political Science. In 1986, he received his PhD in Political Science at the Saar University with a thesis on “The Political Role of the People’s Liberation Army after the Cultural Revolution.” He finished his “habilitation” on “Stability and Transformation of Political Systems” in November 1993. He held a position as professor for International Relations between 1995 and 1998 in Mainz, before accepting a chair at Free University Berlin in 1998. Between March 2001 and March 2003 he served as Dean of the faculty for Political and Social Sciences at Free University. Later that year he succeeded Karl Kaiser as the Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Foreign Editor
Klaus Dieter Frankenberger is currently foreign editor of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which editorial staff he joined in September 1986. He will be in residence from March 1-31. His writings deal especially with the United States, European, transatlantic, and international politics. Prior to his positions at the Frankfurter Allgemeine, he was a congressional fellow and served as assistant to a member of Congress in 1985 and 1986, taking thereby a closer look on the political decision-making process of the United States. Frankenberger’s previous academic activities include research positions at the Center for North American Studies in Frankfurt/Main and a Marshall-Fellowship at Harvard University in 1990.
European Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Policy Fellow
François Godement is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign relations (www.ecfr.eu), professor of political science at Sciences Po and the Director for Strategy at the Asia Centre in Paris (www.centreasia.org). He is also an outside consultant to the Policy Planning Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A long time professor and former director of the Business Program and the International Relations Program at the French Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, he is a founder of the Asia Centre ifri at the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (Paris), where he majored in history, and was a postgraduate student at Harvard University. In 1995, he co-founded the European Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and co-chaired it until 2008. He has also been a member of the Advisory board for the Europe China Academic Network (ECAN).
His publications include: "The EU-China Power Audit", European Council on Foreign Relations, May 2009 and "A Global China Policy; European Council on Foreign Relations", June 2010. He is a regular editor of China Analysis, an e-bulletin from Chinese sources and debates, published in French by Asia Centre and English in association with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Ahmet Evin is the founding dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University. As director of education of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Geneva-based international development foundation, he coordinated the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in cooperation with that US-based resource center assisted in the development of architectural education in Asia and Africa. Prof. Evin initiated, with the European Commission's support, a policy dialogue on the future European architecture, EU's eastward expansion, its Mediterranean policy, and the customs union agreement with Turkey. His research interests include theories of the State and elites; Turkish political development; and democracy and civil society. He currently works on current foreign policy issues related to the European enlargement, its significance for Turkey and the region as well as its effect on Transatlantic relations. He received his BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1966. That same year he was named William Mitchell Fellow at Columbia where he continued his graduate work and received his Ph.D. in Middle East Studies and Cultural History in 1973. Prior to his appointment at Sabanci University, Dr. Evin taught at New York University, Harvard University, Hacettepe University (Ankara), University of Pennsylvania (where he also served as director of the Middle East Center), University of Hamburg, and Bilkent University in Ankara (where he headed the Department of Political Science).
Joshua W. Walker is Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
Joshua's work focuses on international relations and security studies with a particular emphasis on the Middle East and East Asia. Joshua received his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy at Princeton University where he wrote a dissertation on the role of historical memories in post-imperial successor states' domestic and foreign policies with particular focus on Turkey and Japan.
In 2010–2011, Joshua will be working on his book project Shadows of Empires: How Post-Imperial Successor States Shape Memories along with articles on new directions in Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Walker was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Transatlantic Academy based in Washington, D.C., working on Turkey and its neighborhood that resulted in a policy report and forthcoming book project titled, Getting to Zero.
Walker is a fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and Bradley Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations at Princeton and the Young Professions in Foreign Policy in New York. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Ankara, Turkey, and worked for the U.S. Embassy and State Department on Turkey.
Kemal Kirisci is a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and was also the director of the Center for European Studies at the university between 2002 and June 2008. He received his Ph. D. at City University in London in 1986. His areas of research interest include European integration, asylum, border management and immigration issues in the European Union, EU-Turkish relations, Turkish foreign policy, ethnic conflicts, and refugee movements. He has previously taught at universities in Britain, Switzerland and the United States. Kirisci has written numerous reports on immigration issues in EU-Turkish relations that can be accessed from www.carim.org.
Nathalie Tocci is Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels and Associate Editor of The International Spectator. She has held previous research positions at CEPS (1999-2003) and the European University Institute, Florence (2003-2007). Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the European neighbourhood, with a particular focus on Turkey, Cyprus, the Middle East and the South Caucasus. Nathalie is the winner of the 2008 Anna Lindh award for the study of European foreign policy.
Juliette Tolay is completing her Ph.D in political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation looks at Turkish approaches to immigration, and studies the historical and cultural sources of these complex attitudes and policies. A French national, Ms Tolay has also studied at Sciences Po in Paris, from which she has received a B.A and M.A, as well as at INALCO, where she received an M.A in Turkish studies. She has studied or conducted research in Turkey, Tajikistan and Iran. She has authored a number of papers and a book chapter on migration flows in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research at the Academy has focused on the movement of population in and out of Turkey and the implications of migration for Turkish foreign policies.
Sinan Ülgen is a founding partner of Istanbul Economics, chairman of the think tank Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (www.edam.org.tr), as well as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He graduated in 1987 from the University of Virginia with a double major in computer sciences and economics. He undertook graduate studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium where he received, in 1990, a master’s degree in European economic integration. He then joined the Turkish Foreign Service as a career diplomat and worked for two years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara at the United Nations desk. In 1992, he was posted to the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union in Brussels where he became a member of the Turkish negotiations team for the Turkey-EU Customs Union. In 1996, Ülgen was posted to the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli where he spent the rest of the year. Upon his return to Ankara , Mr. Ülgen resigned from the Foreign Service and started his consultancy practice. He is the author of numerous publications including a book entitled “The European transformation of modern Turkey ” co-authored with Kemal Dervis in 2004 and a recent book entitled “Handbook of EU negotiations”. He is a regular contributor to Turkish dailies and his opinion pieces have also been published by international media such as The International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, European Voice and Le Figaro as well as think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, Center for European Reform, Center for European Policy Studies and the Atlantic Council of the US.
Hugh Pope is since 2007 the Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group, the conflict-prevention organization. Based in Istanbul, he writes reports on EU-Turkey relations, Cyprus and Turkey’s ties with its neighbors. Pope was previously a foreign correspondent for 25 years, most recently spending a decade as a Turkey, Middle East and Central Asia Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Pope received a B.A. in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) from Oxford University. Mr. Pope has written TURKEY UNVEILED: a History of Modern Turkey (London 1997, a New York Times "notable book"), and SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: the Rise of the Turkic world (New York 2005, an Economist magazine "book of the year"). His forthcoming book, DINING WITH AL-QAEDA: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East will be published in March 2010 (New York: Thomas Dunne/St Martins Press).
Michael Thumann has joined the Transatlantic Academy as a Bosch Public Policy Fellow for the month of January. During his stay at the Academy he will be working on the issue of changing political elites in Turkey and the Russia-Turkey relationship.
An experienced journalist and author, he is the chief editor for the Middle East of Die Zeit. Based in Istanbul, he covers the Arab Middle East, Turkey, Central Asia. Prior to his posting in Istanbul, he served as Die Zeit’s Foreign Editor from 2001-2007, and as the Moscow correspondent of Die Zeit from 1996-2001, reporting on Russia’s relations with the Islamic populations of the Caucasus and Central Asia. He has also served as the political editor of Die Zeit on southeastern Europe. He studied at the Free University, Berlin, Columbia University and the Leningrad State University and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
His books include:
Der Islam und der Westen, Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003
Land ohne Unterleib, in: Russland und der Kaukasus (Fischer-Weltalmanach 2005)
La puissance russe. Un puzzle à reconstituer?, Paris, 2003
Das Lied von der russischen Erde. Moskaus Ringen um Einheit und Größe, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/München 2002;
Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based foreign policy think-tank. She has written extensively about Russia, Turkey, Central and Eastern Europe and about all aspects EU enlargement. She also works on European economic reforms, globalization, energy questions and EU institutional change. Katinka has acted as an advisor to the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum and other organizations, as well as EU governments and a number of financial institutions and business federations.
Katinka joined the CER in July 2002 as chief economist and became deputy director in 2007. Before that, she was an analyst and editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, specializing in Eastern Europe and Russia. Until 1998, she worked as a consultant in Brussels, where she was also involved in formulating the European Commission's strategy towards the East European candidate countries. Katinka gained an Masters of Science in International Political Economy with distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science, Economics and Law from Munich University.
German
Sociology
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin-Social Science Research Centre
Email:
IMichalowski(at)transatlanticacademy(dot)org
Ines Michalowski received her PhD in 2007 jointly with Münster and Sciences Po in Paris. She has done research in the Netherlands as well as in France and has already an impressive publication record. In March 2008 she joined the staff of the WZB-Social Science Research Centre in Berlin where she is working in the research unit on Migration, Integration and Transnationalization. She is proposing to look at the political and juridical incorporation of Islam in European Member states and compare it to what is happening in the US in this regard.
German Political Science
University of Münster
Professor Thränhardt is one of the leading academic specialists in Europe in the field of comparative immigration policies. He has served as Dean of Social Sciences and Dean of the Philosophy Faculty as well as Director of the Institute of Political Sciences at Münster. He will be working on issues related to the recruitment of skilled workers to Europe and the development of free movement of people outside the OECD area as well.
Dutch
Anthropology
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Amsterdam
Senior Researcher, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Jeroen Doomernik will bring a strong combination of academic and policy oriented research, and has served as a senior policy advisor to the Minister of Integration and Urban Affairs and for the European Commission. Doomernik is active in the EU sponsored European network of excellence in the immigration field (IMISCOE). He proposes to work on the future of migration control in both Europe and the transatlantic area with an emphasis upon regimes which attempt to attract the highly skilled while limiting migration of the lower skilled.
American
Political Science/International Relations
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
University of Albany
Rey Koslowski is a leading academic authority in the field, with a strong background in transatlantic and European policies. Koslowski has a strong publication record and excellent ties to European academics and policy oriented institutions, including the Migration Policy Institute. He also participated in the Bellagio Dialogue organized by GMF. His proposal is to examine the politics and diplomacy of US and EU visa policies and the implications of new information technologies for transatlantic cooperation in this policy area.
American
Political Science
Assistant Professor
Boston College
Jonathan Laurence won the prestigious Lasswell prize for the best dissertation in public policy from the American Political Science Association, which he wrote at Harvard, and has published an important study of Muslim integration in France for the Brookings Institution. He was also a participant in the Bellagio Dialogue. He was a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin and has academic experience in Italy and France as well. He will be working on state-Islam relations in Europe and in particular on how Islamic leaders and programs have been changed by their participation in government sponsored forums.
American
University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
Rahsaan Maxwell was awared a PhD in May 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley and already has three publications, including one in a refereed journal, and two more articles under review. He has had a number of grants, including one from the Ford Foundation and a Chateaubriand Fellowship. He has been a visiting researcher in London and Paris and has written a dissertation on the integration of ethnic migrants in the UK and France. Recently, he accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the Political Science Department.
Ronald H. Linden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. A Princeton Ph.D. (1976), Dr. Linden is the author of "Balkan Geometry: Turkish Accession and the International Relations of Southeast Europe" Orbis (Spring, 2007) and "EU Accession and the Role of International Actors," in Sharon Wolchik and Jane Curry Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). During 1984-89 and 1991-98 he was Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Pitt. From 1989 to 1991 Dr. Linden served as Director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. He is currently the Associate Editor of Problems of Post-Communism and in 2008 edited a special issue devoted to “The New Populism in Central and Southeast Europe.” Dr. Linden has received research grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and its predecessor, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, and from the International Research and Exchanges Board. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, a Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace under the Jennings Randolph Program on International Peace, and a Guest Scholar of the East European Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Steffen Angenendt is since September 2006 senior associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Within the research unit Global Issues he is responsible for research on demography, migration and security.
He has published extensively on German, European and international migration policy. Before joining the Institute in 1993, he was research fellow at the Political Science Department of the Free University of Berlin. He also worked as a consultant i.a. to UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, the German Federal Government’s Independent Commission on Immigration Reform (Süssmuth-Kommission), the Council for Asia-Europe Co-operation (CAEC), and the High Council on Migration and Integration (Zuwanderungsrat) of the German government. He taught political science and political sociology at the Free University and the Humboldt University in Berlin. He holds a diploma in political science and a Ph.D. in political science from the Free University in Berlin.
Mr. Bernard is a correspondent for the French daily, Le Monde, and is a specialist on immigration issues and Africa. He has specialized as a reporter at the African desk, International section and is a columnist on Africa. He reports on several Sub Saharan countries. Between 1997-2005 he served as editor at the “Société” section of Le Monde, serving as a columnist on immigration and race relations. From 1991-2005 he specialized on immigration and urban problems in France, Le Monde, Paris, France.
Khedidja Bourcart is an elected agent in charge of integration of Non-EU citizens, responsible for creating a department within the City of Paris administration to implement a fourfold policy: (i) access to citizenship and prerogative of law (ii) social welfare, (iii) solidarity and (iv) promotion of common cultures. Her main interests include creating a network among elected officials in major urban areas to discuss best practices in regard to immigration policies. She also has worked extensively in the arts, as an attaché to NGO and magazines dealing with the immigrant experience.
Ms. Ayse Özbabacan is the coordinator of the European Cities Network CLIP (Cities for Local Integration Policies of Migrants). She works for the Department for Integration Policy of the City of Stuttgart, where she supports the City to implement the goals of the Stuttgart Pact for Integration, the Stuttgart Integration Policy concept. For the last year and a half, she has been working on the extension of the network and on supporting the CLIP scientific research group to conduct migration-specific case studies in Stuttgart, which involves the organization of CLIP meetings, the writing of the CLIP-newsletter, and the presentation of successful integration work on the local, national and European levels. Ms. Özbabacan is multilingual, speaking German, English, French, Dutch, Kurdish, and Turkish. She has degrees in European studies and law and a masters degree in European culture from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Edwina O’Shea is a senior policy analyst with Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, most recently working on asylum and refugee issues. In particular, Edwina has conducted comparative analyses of Canadian and U.S. asylum polices and practices, as well as research into decision-making in the Canadian refugee resettlement program. She has also worked in Canadian diplomatic missions abroad conducting refugee, immigrant and non-immigrant selection in Thailand, Nepal, Singapore and Kenya. She brings immigration policy and practitioner experience from a Canadian perspective. Edwina has a bachelors degree in political studies from Queen’s University and a masters in Political Science from the University of Toronto in Canada.
