Dr. Jasmin Lorch

Since 07/2021: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies

06/2020 - 06/2021: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies

Since 05/2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt; Annemarie Schimmel-Scholar (Professorinnenprogramm des Bundes und der Länder)

04/2020 - 05/2020: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies

02/2019 - 06/2019: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies (part-time)

06/2017 - 04/2020: Research Fellow in the DFG-funded project "From Quietism to Politics: The Egyptian Salafist Movement from 1970 to 2012"

05/2017 - 09/2017: Coordinator of the Research Platform Tunis

07/2016 - 04/2017: leave replacement of Dr. Annette Ranko in the DFG-funded project "From Quietism to Politics: The Egyptian Salafist Movement from 1970 to 2012"

11/2015 - 06/2017: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

11/2013 - 11/2015: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, (Postdoctoral Researcher) in the project „Civil Society Organizations as Supporters of Authoritarian Rule? A Cross-Regional Comparison (Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique)“

12/2012 - 12/2013: Research Associate of Project D1 „Conditions for the Success of Transnational Partnerships for Development: From Transnational Cooperation to Local Implementation in Areas of Limited Statehood (South Asia and East Africa)“, Collaborative Research Center (SFB- Sonderforschungsbereich) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” and Associate of the Research Division Global Issues of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs ( SWP - Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Berlin

01/2008 - 11/2012: Visiting Fellow at the Research Division Asia of SWP; Publication of one SWP Research Paper and several SWP Comments, thorough experience in the field of political consultancy, various consultancies for political decision makers and numerous interviews with the press

Since 2006: Consultant for various state and non-state development agencies; particularly on Burma/Myanmar

Education: Studies of Political Science at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin; M.A. (Diplom); Doctoral fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (04/2007-03/2011); Doctoral fellowship of the Forum Ebenhausen e.V. (04/2011-02/2012); Doctoral student at the University of Freiburg (Department of Political Science); dissertation "Mirror Images of Weak States: Civil Societies in Bangladesh and the Philippines" (04/2007 – 09/2013)

Salafism in the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco)

Civil Society in Autocracies

Authoritarianism and Civil Society Development in Algeria

State Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia (esp. Burma/Myanmar and the Philippines)

Political Change in Burma/Myanmar

Islam und Islamism in Bangladesh und Southeast Asia (esp. Philippines)

Burma/Myanmar

Bangladesch

Philippinen

Maghreb