Linking Research and Global Policy. A Critical Dialogue with Inputs and Comments

Panels:

• Critical Dialogue on the Role of Think Tanks in Global Governance
• Effectiveness of Policy-consulting vs. Policy-making in Global Governance Processes
• Challenges for Think Tanks in diverse global Settings: A Chance for new and unorthodox collaborations?

Speakers: Short Bio Sketches (alphabetical order)

Christian von Haldenwang studied Political Science and Philosophy in Tübingen, Washington, DC (Georgetown U.) and Bogotá (U. de los Andes). In 1994 he earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tübingen, where he worked for four years as a researcher and lecturer. Since 1998 he is a senior researcher with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Dept. Governance, Statehood, Security. Between 2003 and 2007 he was coordinator of the German development cooperation with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile. Back at the DIE he directed the Course of the Postgraduate Training Programme in 2008/09. Recent activities in research and consultancy cover issues of public finance (tax systems), decentralization and legitimacy. Christian von Haldenwang is the DIE regional coordinator for Latin America.

Omneia Helmy is Acting Executive Director and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) as well as professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She held academic positions outside Egypt, including visiting professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), and affiliate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA. Helmy is a member of the Egyptian Society for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation; Egypt’s Scientific Research Academy; the Economic Research Forum; the Egyptian National Council for Wages; and the Egyptian National Committee for Investing Pension Funds. She has undertaken several professional activities at various prominent organizations including the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies at Cairo University.

Michael Hofmann studied Political Sciences and Latin American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, and graduated from the same university with a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences. After his university studies he participated in the 14^th Postgraduate Training Programme at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). He worked for seven years as a Research Fellow at the DIE in Berlin, was advisor to the former Chancellor Willy Brandt on International Affairs, and Chief of Staff for the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the years between 1992 and 1995. Afterwards, he became Head of the International Department of the SPD, and then Director General in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for global and sectoral tasks, European and multilateral development policy and Africa and the Middle East. In the last five years, he was first employed at the World Bank as German Executive Director, and later on he worked as a lecturer at Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin.

Barbara Lippert studied Political science, Contemporary and Eastern European History and Slavonic studies at the University of Bonn and the Freie Universität Berlin. She has a doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the University of Bonn. In April 2009 she took up the position of Director of Studies in the “German Institute for International and Security Affairs” of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin. Prior to this, she was from 1992 Deputy Director of the Institut für Europäische Politik in Berlin (IEP) and managing editor of the IEP’s quarterly academic journal integration. Until recently she was a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin and previously at the Freie Universität Berlin and University of Cologne. She was also a member of the steering group of the network of excellence EU-CONSENT 2005-2009. Lippert specialises in: EU enlargement policy and its implications for the political system and policies of the EU; processes of transformation and integration in Central Europe and Eastern Europe; European Neighbourhood Policy and relations with Eastern Europe; Germany and European integration.

YE Jiang received his MA in History at East China Normal University in 1987 and his PhD in Law at Fudan University in 1998. He is the Director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies and the Director of the Centre for European Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. He is also a Professor, PhD supervisor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is concurrently a Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association of World Ethno-Nations, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Institute of European Studies, and Council Member of the Shanghai Association of International Relations. He is the author of two books and has about 80 articles. His two works The Two Ethnic Theories in the Contemporary West and Analysis on “Security Dilemma” won the 7th Shanghai Award of Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2002-2003).