PD Dr. habil. Christine Hackenesch

Function: Project Lead & Senior Researcher

Specialization: Political Science

Work areas:

Regional coordinator Africa

  • EU-Africa relations
  • China-Africa relations
  • Political regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EU support for democracy, human rights and good governance
  • EU external relations, focus on EU development policy


Vita

Since 2023 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Senior lecturer („Privatdozentin“)
2023 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Habilitation („venia legendi“ in Political Science)
Since 2/2023 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation"
7/2021-1/2023 Parental Leave
6/2019-6/2021 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Head of Programme, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation"
1/2018-6/2019 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation"
since 10/2019 University of Bonn
Lecturerer
since 4/2019 University of Mainz
Lecturerer
6/2008-12/2017 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Senior Researcher, Department „Bi- und Multilateral Development Cooperation“
Summer Semester 2017 University of Bayreuth
Visiting Assistant Professor of African Politics and Development Policy
2010 - 2014 Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
PhD candidate, dissertation: The EU and China in Africa authoritarian regimes. The politics of cooperating on governance reforms in the 21st century.
2002 - 2008 Free University of Berlin and Sciences Po Paris
Franco-German Double Diploma Programme
Diplom in Political Science
Research Master, comparative regional politics, specialty Asia
   

Member of

  • Member of the advisory council on development policy (Beirat Entwicklungszusammenarbeit) of the Senate of Berlin

Refereed Publications

Non-refereed Publications

Opinion Pieces

Projects