Education

since 10/07

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bremen
Ph.D. Candidate, Field “Transnational Relations and Political Theory“

09/05  - 08/07

Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Degree: Master of Public Policy (MPP)

08/06 – 12/06 

Georgetown University, USA
Exchange Semester, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

10/01 – 02/05 

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Degree: B.A. International Affairs

02/04 – 07/04

University of  Maastricht, The Netherlands
Exchange Semester

05/06 – 07/06

International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
Internship in the Directorate 

04/05 – 07/05

Federal Foreign Office, Germany
Internship in the task force on humanitarian disaster prevention

01/05 – 02/05

Lower house of the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)
Internship in the parliamentary group Alliance90/The Greens

01/07 – 05/07

Hertie School of Governance, Germany
Teaching assistant for “Applied Qualitative and Quantitative Methods“

07/05 – 05/06

Adelphi Consult (Berlin), Germany  
Internship and work as part-time research assistant

09/03 – 10/03

Mysore Resettlement and Development Agency, India
Realization of a study on improvements of rural Microfinance institutions

05/03 – 09/03

Institute for Political Science, University of St. Gallen  
Assistant in the planning-team for the Master of International Affairs

since 10/07  

Ph.D. Stipend, Graduate School of Social Sciences
Three-year stipend for pursuing the Ph.D. at the BIGSSS

09/05 – 05/07

Master Stipend, Hertie School of Governance
Two-year stipend covering the full tuition fee for the Master Program

06/2005

Award for the best multidisciplinary final thesis of the year 2005  
Awarded by the student-body of the University of St. Gallen