Visiting Fellows

Currently at the GIGA

Name Country of Origin / Institution Research Duration of stay Funding
Ana Isabel López García
  • Political behaviour
  • International migration
  • Peace and conflict
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Gerda Henkel Foundation (Special Programme Security, Society and the State)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kalinowski

Ewha Womans University, South Korea
  • International Political Economy
  • International Organizations
  • Global governance
  • Sustainable governance
  • International development
  • Climate finance
  • Development cooperation
  • Climate adaptation
  • Green Climate Fund
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Sabbatical
Dr. Melina Kalfelis
  • Political Anthropology
  • Civil Society
  • Transnationalism
  • Audiovisual Anthropology
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VolkswagenStiftung
Prof. Dr. Sook Jong Lee

Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
  • Complex Dimensions of Asian Countries’ Responses toward China
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East Asia Institute of South Korea
Dr. Jaemin Shim
  • Understanding Party Politics in Northeast Asia with Multiple Cleavages
  • Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia: Legislative Patterns and Performance of Female Legislators
  • Capturing Welfare Politics with Triangulation: Combining Multiple Datasets and Methods from Neighbouring Disciplines
  • Presidentialism and Welfare Politics
  • Party-Voter Linkage of Unorthodox Social Policy in Korea and Japan
  • World Politics of Social Investment
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Thyssen Fellowship
Sharinee Jagtiani

St Cross College, University of Oxford
  • Regions and Region-building in International Relations
  • Status-seeking and aspiring powers
  • Global International Relations
  • Indian foreign policy
  • China-India Relations
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GIGA India Fellowship
Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra

India
  • Counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency strategies of India, Israel, and the United States of America.
  • Interlinkages of human security (energy, water, food, and environmental security) concerns and policies in India
  • Environmental economics and sustainable development of South Asia
  • Ideology- and identity-based politics of India
  • Indian political communications in the digital space including the methods of persuasion, manipulation, propaganda, and voter engagement
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GIGA India Fellowship
Matheus Lucas Hebling

University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Presidentialism
  • Foreign Policy
  • Presidential Agenda
  • Terrorism
  • Decision-Making and Legislative Processes
  • Political Discourse
  • Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics
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Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES

Former Visiting Fellows

Name Country of Origin / Institution Research Duration of stay Funding
Jan Němec

Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague
  • Comparative Politics
  • Party Politics
  • Electoral Processes
  • Legislative Studies
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University of Economics, Prague
Dr. Rocío Verástegui Ledesma

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
  • Process of construction of the Nation and democracy in Peru
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Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Service (DAAD). Research stays for University Academics and Scientists, 2018
Dr. Sazana Jayadeva
  • Transnational student mobility
  • Migration infrastructures
  • Social media
  • Indian middle classes
  • Social mobility
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GIGA India Fellowship
Rocco Zizzamia

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), Cape Town, South Africa
  • Effects of volatility in the South African labour market on individual well-being
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SALDRU
Dr. Zoltan Pall

Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
  • Kuwaiti Islamic Charities, Transnational Networks and the Transformation of Muslim Communities in Southeast Asia
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GIGA
Dr. Kamala Kaghoma

Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Education
  • Intergenerational Mobility
  • Poverty dynamics
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TWAS-DFG
Dr. Sreeradha Datta

Profil Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, India
  • The developing connectivity corridors in the Southern Asian region
  • Regional organisations, and issues concerning internal security and cross border linkages
  • Cross border economic corridors
  • Internal and cross border migrations
  • Common waters in the Southern Asian region
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GIGA India Fellowship
Enrique Carlos Natalino

Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil
  • Presidential Diplomacy
  • Ideology and Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Political Resource Course
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Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES
Jannik Schritt

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Political Anthropology
  • Anthropology of the State
  • Anthropology of Development
  • Oil
  • Globalization
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VW Grant "Forschung und Praxis"
Dr. Merouan Mekouar

York University, Canada
  • Governance in Authoritarian Countries
  • Authoritarian Resilience
  • Social Movements
  • Democratic Transitions
  • Diffusion
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Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
Sofia Vera

University of Pittsburgh, United States
  • Democratization
  • Representation
  • Parties and Party Systems
  • Political Behaviour
  • Accountability
  • Corruption
  • Causal Inference
  • Mixed-methods Research
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Dr. May Darwich

Durham University, UK
  • Foreign Policy Analysis of Middle Eastern States
  • The Interplay Identity and Power in Middle East International Relations
  • Identity politics
  • Alliances and Threat Perception
  • Regime-society relations
  • Authoritarianism in the Middle East
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Prof. Dr. Lucas Pereira Rezende

Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
  • International Security and Defense
  • Defense Cooperation in South America
  • Armed Forces and Democracy in Brazil
  • International Relations Theories
  • Peace Operations
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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Aline Chianca Dantas

Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
  • Foreign Policy
  • International Technical Scientific Cooperation
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CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brazilian Institute of International Education)
Rodrigo Cuevas

University of Chile, Chile
  • Trade Policy
  • Interest Group
  • Institutional change
  • Comparative politics.
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Funding: National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT)
Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
  • Electoral Systems
  • Democratic Theory
  • Electoral Coalitions
  • International Relations
  • Brazilian Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
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Self financier
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Mouiche

Department of Political Science, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon
  • Political Parties
  • Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Cameroon
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Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Raphaëlle Khan

King's College London, UK
  • India and the Global Order
  • Think Tanks in India
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GIGA India Fellowship
Grazielle Albuquerque

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) , Brazil
  • Judicial Systems in Latin America
  • Institutional change / Political Process
  • Judicial Behavior
  • Public Communication / Political Press
  • Internet/social media
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CAPES (Brazil)
Rafael Mesquita de Souza Lima

Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
  • Regional Powers
  • Foreign Policy
  • Regionalism
  • Brazilian Foreign Policy
  • United Nations
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CAPES (Brazil)
Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury

LAU School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanon
  • Arab immigrant communities in the West
  • Migrants and protest movements
  • Power sharing in divided societies (focus on Lebanon)
  • Models of political governance in the Middle East and North Africa
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Chanchal Kumar Sharma

Central University of Haryana, Pali, Mahendergarh, India
  • Political Economy of Federalism
  • Party System Stability and Change
  • Intergovernmental Transfers and Regional Disparities
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GIGA India Fellowship
Cecilia Roa

Fundación Evaristo García, Cali, Kolumbien
  • Water supply
  • Environment
  • Development
  • Sustainability
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Kai Michael Kenkel

Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Security
  • Intervention norms
  • Responsibility to protect
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Saiful Haque

MOVE Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Research on Preventing Youth Radicalisation and Political Extremism in South Asia and Beyond
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ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Dr. Haibin Niu

Shanghai Institute for International Studies, China
  • Comparative Studies on the Strategy of Germany and China towards Brazil
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Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji

Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria
  • A Cross National Survey of the Reports of International Election Observation Missions in Africa
  • Policies Tackling Electoral Violence in Africa
  • Evolution of Political Institutions in Africa
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Sandra Zapata Universidad de Salamanca, Spain South-South Cooperation and Integration Processes in Latin America August -September 2016 Universidad de Salamanca
Prof. Dr. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser Universidad Diego Portales, Chile Comparative Politics, Populism, Democracy, Political Parties July - August 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Angelika Rettberg Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Colombia June - July 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Vanessa Suelt Cock Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Corporations’ Complicity in Human Rights Violations, Participation and the Right to Land June - July 2016 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Suyeon Lee Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul South Korea's Mixed-Member Electoral System and Party Politics February - July 2016 Korea Foundation Fellowship
Dr. Santiago Basabe-Serrano Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador. Department of Political Studies Judicial Systems in Latin America September 2014 - July 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Lecture and Workshop IDCAR-Network and RP 1 February - March 2016
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer Universität Hildesheim Lectures and Discussions IDCAR-Network and RP 1 January - February 2016
Soyun Yang Seoul National University, South Korea Legal Approach to Human Rights Violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea September 2015 - February 2016 Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Kai Enno Lehmann Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo (IRI-USP) Regionalism and its role in security management in Latin America August 2015 - February 2016
Dr. Nicolás Comini Universidad del Salvador, Argentina International Relations, Regional Integration, Defense and Security August 2015 - January 2016
Dr. Sazana Jayadeva University of Cambrigde, UK Research on International Student Migration from India August 2015 - January 2016 DAAD
Nicolás Simone Institute of Research "Gino Germani", Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Political History, Transitions to Democracy, Argentine Congress, Political and Legislatives Careers October - November 2015 DAAD
Prof. Dr. Diana Tussie Department of International Relations at FLACSO, Argentina Latin American Economics and Politics, International Trade, International Institutions August - September 2015
Christopher Bahia Mendonça Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Legislative Behavior, Subnational Politics in Brazil, Institutional Presidency in Latin America October 2014 - September 2015
Dr. Laurence Whitehead Latin American Centre, University of Oxford US relations and European relations with Latin America, current processes of democratisation June - July 2015
Gabriel Alejandro Martínez Universidad de Salamanca, España State Building, Governance, Independent Agencies, Bureaucracy and Public Administration Reform in El Salvador May - July 2015 DAAD
Prof. Dr. H. Christoph Steinhardt Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong Social Protest (Management) in China May - July 2015 Centre for China Studies
Jeonghyun Seong Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul Current Issues in Inter-Korean Relations February - July 2015 Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Malte Pehl College of Charleston India-Africa Relations and China-Africa Relations since 2000 June 2015
Micha Wiebusch SOAS, London, IOB, Antwerp, UNU-CRIS, Bruges Regional Integration in Africa, Public International Law, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies February - March 2015 Institutions for Sustainable Peace (ISP)
Solhee Han KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea Research Internship October 2014 - March 2015 Korea Foundation Fellowship
Cíntia Vieira Souto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Strategic International Studies Program Brazilian Foreing Policy, Bilateral Relations, Military Cooperations in Latin America January - March 2015 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES
Carolina de Oliveira Salgado Pontificia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro Brazilian Foreign Policy, International Cooperation, Transnational Norm Processes, Dynamics of the European Union May 2014 - February 2015
Dr. David Kuehn Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg Demokratisierungs- und Autokratieforschung, Zivil-Militärische Beziehungen, Methoden April - June 2015 IDCAR
Filipe Souza Correa Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/ Departamento de Ciência Política, Brasil Legislative Behavior, Subnational Politics in Brazil, Institutional Presidency in Latin America June 2014 - February 2015
Eun-Joo Lee KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea Research Internship October - December 2014 Korea Foundation Fellowship
Prof. Dr. William Harris University of Otago, New Zealand The Civil War in Syria: Perspectives and Prospects October 2014
Victor M. Mijares Universidad Central de Venezuela International Security, Multipolarity, Neoclassical Realism, South American Defense Council September 2013 - September 2014
Dr. Santiago Basabe-Serrano Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador. Department of Political Studies Formal and Informal Political Institutions. Judicial Politics, Legislatures and Presidentialism, Ecuador September 2013 - August 2014 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Pastrana Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Columbian Foreign Policy July 2014 AvH, DAAD
Giovanni Agostinis IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Regionalism, Interdependence, South America, UNASUR November 2013 - July 2014
Dr. Víctor M. González-Sánchez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid Economic Convergence, Economic Growth, Economic Development September 2013 - July 2014 UNED and Ministry of Education of Spain
Angelika Rettberg, Ph.D Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Colombia July 2013 - July 2014 Georg Forster Fellowship
Dr. Meena Singh Roy Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), India Regional Security in Afghanistan March - June 2014 German Research Foundation (DFG)
Luis Leandro Schenoni Santos Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Neoclassical Realism, International Relations in South America, Regional Reactions Towards the Brazlian Rise February - June 2014
Insa Flachsbarth CEIGRAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spanien Impacts of Agricultural Commodity Trade on Poverty through Structural Changes in the Peruvian Economy August 2013 - May 2014
Allyson Lucinda Benton División de Estudios Políticos, CIDE, Distrito Federal, Mexico The Municipal Foundations of Subnational Authoritarian Enclaves April 2014
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Reilly Murdoch University Australia, Perth Power Sharing January - February 2014 AvH, DAAD
Prof. Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney East China Normal University/Fudan University/Central Translation and Compilation Bureau Ideology in China, Chinese Communist Party January - February 2014 Kompetenznetz Regieren in China
Paula Bertino Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani de la Universidad de Buenos Aires ILAS October - December 2013 Universidad de Buenos Aires "René Hugo Thalmann"
Dr. Ningli Long China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics, Beijing Chinese Civil Society, Local Governance September - December 2013 BMBF Kompetenznetz "Regieren in China"
Pr. Dr. Ibrahim Mouiche Department of Political Science, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon Political Parties and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Cameroon October 2012 - December 2013 Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. Dr. Kathryn Hochstetler University of Waterloo, USA Global Governance / Comparative Politics / Latin America November 2013
Dr. Adrian H. Hearn University of Sidney, Australia Relations between China and Latin America September - October 2013 DAAD
Prof. Morten Valbjorn Department of Political Science, Aarhus CAS/IMES/RP1 Lectures September - October 2013 GIGA
Prof. Sean Yom Temple University, Philadelphia CAS/IMES/RP1 Lectures September 2013 GIGA
Dr. Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi Universitat de Girona, Spanien Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas en América Latina August - September 2013
Prof. Dawisson Elvecio Belem Lopes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasilien Contested World Orders-Projekt July - August 2013 GIGA
Dr. Philip Kitzberger Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires Left Turn and Governmental Activism in the Political Public Sphere in Latin America February - July 2013 Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Adriana Schor University of São Paulo (IRI/USP), Brazil International Trade and Political Cooperation and Conflict September 2012 - June 2013 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Dr. Lucio Renno Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia Electoral Institutions, Political Information and Voting: A Comparative Study of Electoral Systems March - May 2013 AvH Research Fellowship
Dr. Björn Dressel Australian National University (ANU), Canberra Cooperation "Politik und Judikative" April 2013 GIGA
Prof. Dr. Tadahisa Izeki Chuo University, Tokio Research on Social Movements in Germany and Japan April 2012 - March 2013 Self-financed
Dr. Mu Gengyuan China Institute of International Studies, Beijing Project: "Interregionalism: A New Path to Global Governance or a Replacement for it?" October - December 2012 GIZ
Adriana Ramírez Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Spain PhD sharing with Salamanca September - December 2012
Dr. Eva Wegner University of Cape Town, South Africa Demand for Redistribution, Political Parties in Developing Countries, Islamist Parties, Accountability in Dominant Party Systems August - December 2012 University of Cape Town
Prof. Dr. Sook Jong Lee Sungkyunkwan University and East Asia Institute, Seoul Research Project "South Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy" September - October 2012 Self-financed
Nicole Jenne European University Institute, Florence, Italy International Crises and Territory in South America and Southeast Asia June - September 2012 European University Institute
Dörthe Engelke University of Oxford, Great Britain Research Project "Stability and Change of Authoritarian Regimes" May - July 2012 University of Oxford
Prof. Hongyun Zhou China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics, Beijing BMBF-Kompetenznetwerkes "Regieren in China" May - July 2012 BMBF
Nina von Uexküll Uppsala University, Sweden Research on a Codebook on Conflicts with Non-State Actors May - June 2012 Self-financed/ISP
Dr. Paul Chambers Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Research on Factionalism in (South-)East Asian Political Parties April - June 2012 GIGA
Prof. Ariel Ahram University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, USA Lecture "War-/State-Making in Iraq" at the IMES-Kolloquium June 2012 GIGA
Juan Manuel Trak Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) Political Representation in Latin America March - May 2012
Rubén Dominguez Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) Research March - May 2012 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Mexico
Ferdinand Eibl University of Oxford, England Social Spending in Authoritarian Regimes January - March 2012 University of Oxford
Pablo Nacht FLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina Doctoral Thesis, Lectures December 2011 - January 2012 DAAD
Claire Wright Universidad de Salamanca, Espana Doctoral Thesis, Lectures, Teaching September - December 2011 Spanish Ministry of Science
Piao Yingji Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS), China Foreign Direct Investments and Development in Africa September - December 2011 GIZ
Prof. Hari Bansh Jha Centre for Economic and Technical Studies, Katmandu, Nepal Nepal's Economic Strategy September - December 2011 Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Juanita Villaveces Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Columbia Doctoral Thesis, Lectures September - November 2011 DAAD
Dr. Mustafa al-Labbad Al-Sharq Center for Regional and Strategic Studies, Kairo, Ägypten Arab Spring August 2011 Al-Sharq Center for Regional and Strategic Studies
Prof. Dr. Hugo Dobson School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Great Britain The Role of Asian Regional Powers in G8 and G20 June - July 2011
Albert de Vaal Radboud University Nijmegen International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment April 2011 Radbound University Nijmegen/GIGA
Dr. Esther Ishengoma University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Research and Publications Mai 2010 - April 2011
Dr. Alcides Costa Vaz Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia Supervision Doctoral Students, Masterclass, Lectures, Project Planning February - March 2011 HIGS
Dr. Lucio Renno Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia Research, Publication January - March 2011 AvH Research Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Martin Paldam School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, Denmark Research January 2011