Academic Staff | Growth and Development

Contact Competence Länder und Regionen

Dr. Karsten Giese

Senior Research Fellow
Tel.: +49 (0)40 - 42 88 74-44
karsten.giese@giga-hamburg.de
  • Migration
  • socio-cultural Change
  • Internet
  • PR China
  • Taiwan

Anna Giolbas

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-732
anna.giolbas@giga-hamburg.de
  • Inequality and preferences for redistribution
  • Social security systems in developing countries
  • Political economy of social security systems
  • Africa

Dr. Simone Gobien

Research Fellow
+49 (0)40 - 42825-781
simone.gobien@giga-hamburg.de
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Experimental Economics
  • Economics of Well-being
  • Land allocation and resettlement
  • South-East-Asia
  • South-East-Asia

Hannes Greve

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
+49 (0)40 - 42825-781
hannes.greve@giga-hamburg.de
hannes.greve@giga-hamburg.de
  • Energy, environmental and development economics
  • Effects of energy price increases on welfare and the performance of micro- and small enterprises in Mexico
  • South Africa

Lisa Hoffmann

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-795
lisa.hoffmann@giga-hamburg.de
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Economics of Corruption
  • Southeast Asia

Tabea Lakemann

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
Speaker Research Team
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-718
tabea.lakemann@giga-hamburg.de
  • Gender and Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation, Technology Use and Adaptation in Micro and Small Enterprises
  • Africa
  • Uganda

Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Head of RP 3
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-763
jann.lay@giga-hamburg.de
  • Economy
  • development
  • Africa

Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar, D.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (Cantab)

President
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-501
amrita.narlikar@giga-hamburg.de
  • Rising Powers
  • BRICS, especially India
  • International Trade
  • International Negotiation
  • World Trade Organization
  • India
  • Brazil

Dr. Daniel Neff

Research Fellow
daniel.neff@giga-hamburg.de
  • Female labour force participation in rural India
  • Subjective well-being
  • Social policies in South Asia
  • South Asia
  • India

Dr. Kerstin Nolte

Research Fellow
Speaker Research Team
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-518
kerstin.nolte@giga-hamburg.de
  • Extent, processes and effects of large-scale land acquisitions
  • Rural development
  • Agricultural transformations
  • Zambia
  • Kenya
  • Mali

Dr. Sebastian Renner

Research Fellow
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-781
sebastian.renner@giga-hamburg.de
  • Environmental and development economics
  • Poverty reduction and low carbon economic development
  • Indonesia
  • India
  • Mexico
  • South Africa
  • Thailand

Simone Schotte

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-791
simone.schotte@giga-hamburg.de
  • Development Economics
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Social Mobility
  • Political Attitudes
  • Household Survey Analysis
  • Microsimulation Models
  • Brazil
  • South Africa

Sarah Wiegel (née Linde)

Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-732
sarah.wiegel@giga-hamburg.de
  • Relationship between employment and well-being
  • Empowerment and Sen's capability approach
  • Informal employment
  • Sri Lanka
  • Uganda

Associated

Contact Competence Länder und Regionen

Marcus Conlé

Associate
+49 (0)40 - 42 88 74-35
marcus.conle@giga-hamburg.de
  • China and the Comparative Capitalisms
  • Business Systems, Industrial Dynamics, and Innovation in China
  • China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry
  • China

Dr. Marina Dodlova

Associate
Marina.Dodlova@uni-passau.de
  • Politische Institutionen
  • Pro-poor policy
  • Lateinamerika
  • Afrika

Dr. Lena Giesbert

Associate
lena.giesbert@gfa-group.de
  • Poverty and economic development
  • micro-level poverty traps, social protection
  • microfinance, microinsurance
  • employment and well-being
  • informal sector
  • East Africa
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Uganda

Prof. Dr. Robert Kappel

Associate
Editor GIGA Focus Africa
+49 (0)162 - 21 90 009
robert.kappel@giga-hamburg.de
  • African economic development
  • enterprise development
  • value chains
  • industry
  • BRICS
  • global power shifts
  • Africa
  • South Africa
  • Nigeria

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Associate
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-515
laurence.marfaing@giga-hamburg.de
  • Migration
  • Mobility
  • West Africa

Dr. Ana Karen Negrete Garcia

Associate
ak.negrete@ugto.mx
  • Micro and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries
  • Innovation and Capital Accumulation
  • Exposure to International Trade
  • Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
  • Lateinamerika

Martin Ostermeier

Associate
Research Fellow / Doctoral Student
Ostermeier@ilo.org
  • Employment-related Millennium Development Goals and the potential post-2015 Development Agenda
  • Large-scale agricultural investments and Sustainable Development
  • Latin America
  • sub-Saharan Africa

Dr. Sebastian Prediger

Associate
sebastian.prediger@giga-hamburg.de
  • Behavioral development economics
  • Employment and entrepreneurship
  • Informal sector
  • Common-pool resource management
  • Microfinance
  • Nepotism and leadership
  • Religion and development
  • Southern Africa
  • Uganda

Dr. Yun Schüler-Zhou

Associate
yun.zhou@giga-hamburg.de
  • Internationalization Strategies of Chinese Enterprises
  • Chinese Outward Direct Investment in Europe
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • China

Dr. Alena Thiel

Associate
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-549
alena.thiel@giga-hamburg.de
  • Chinese-African relations
  • Work Relations/International HR
  • Import, Trade and Markets
  • Civil Society
  • Urban Development
  • Ghana

Katharina van Treeck (née Trapp)

Associate
+49 (0)40 - 428 25-780
katharina.vantreeck@giga-hamburg.de
  • Research project "Collaborative Research Centre 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)"
  • Indonesia