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Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Lead Research Fellow

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Kurzer Lebenslauf

  • 10/2015 - 10/2018: Komm. Direktor des GIGA Instituts für Afrika-Studien

  • Seit 2015: Apl. Prof. an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

  • 2009 - 2015: Junior-Professor an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

  • Seit 2009: Leiter des GIGA Forschungsschwerpunktes 3 "Sozioökonomische Entwicklung in der Globalisierung"

  • 2007 - 2009: Leiter des Forschungsbereichs “Armutsminderung und Entwicklung” am Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel

  • 2002 - 2006: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel

  • Seit 2002: Tätigkeit als Berater unter anderem für Weltbank, Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) und das OECD Development Centre

  • 2002: Berater, OECD Development Centre, Paris

  • 2001: Forschungsassisstent, Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, La Paz, Boliva

  • Studium: Promotion an der Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Dr.rer.pol. (summa cum laude), Dissertation über ‘Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks Combining Macro and Micro Approaches: Three Case Studies from Latin America’; Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre (Diplom-Volkswirt) an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel; Grundstudium an den Universitäten Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spanien; University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Aktuelle Forschung

  • Informelles Unternehmertum in Entwicklungsländern

  • Strukturwandel und seine Armuts- und Verteilungswirkungen

  • Natürliche Ressourcen, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Konflikte

Länder und Regionen

  • Afrika

Forschungsschwerpunkt

Publikationen

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Projekte

01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023

Digital Diplomacy and Statecraft (DigiTraL Diplo): Leg I of GIGA Digital Transformation Lab (DigiTraL) - A Global Approach to Digitalisation

Digital Diplomacy and Statecraft (DigiTraL Diplo) is funded by the Federal Foreign Office. It is the first leg of a larger research endeavour, envisioned to include Digtal Warfare and Development at a later stage. DigiTraL Diplo focuses on how digital transformation offers new opportunities, challenges, and instruments for foreign policy. It will identify the chances and (security) threats of digitalization to advance adequate responses of (digital) diplomacy. FFO, 2021-2023
01.09.2020 - 31.08.2026

Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa

MIASA, based at the University of Legon, Ghana, is one of five Maria Sibylla Merian Centres for Advanced Studies, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. Its overall aim is to work towards a reduction of global asymmetries in knowledge production and bridging the cultural divide between anglophone and francophone Africa. MIASA's thematical focus is on sustainable governance. The GIGA contributes to the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on ‘Sustainable Rural Transformation’ and its outreach activities. BMBF, 2020-2026
01.09.2020 - 31.08.2022

Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains

The aim of the research network is to contribute to the sustainability of global supply chains through research. It initiates new research, pools the expertise of leading scientists around the world and makes new findings accessible for political decision-makers and other stakeholders. The network is hosted by a consortium of the German Development Institute (DIE), the GIGA, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). BMZ, 2020-2022
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Vorträge

Moderator:in | 09.03.2021

Launch Event for the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains

Kooperationsveranstaltung
Online event: 09.03.2021
Organisatoren: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

The virtual launch of the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains: the network is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with the aim of undertaking and stimulating new research that helps to make supply chains more sustainable and to synthesize the best international research on this topic and make it accessible for policymakers and other societal stakeholders.

For this purpose, BMZ has commissioned the German Development Institute (DIE), the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) to establish a network of internationally leading scholars to produce a series of research papers, conferences, policy dialogues, podcasts, a blog, an annual report as well as a dedicated website.

The launch event will be opened by State Secretary Norbert Barthle, BMZ, and include a panel discussion among leading international supply chain researchers, a discussion on the pros and cons of due diligence laws holding companies accountable for their suppliers as well as selection of topical academic presentations.
Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay Lead Research Fellow
Dr. Stefan Pahl Research Fellow
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