Jan Ortgies

Jan Ortgies is currently pursuing a fast track LLB to take the Dutch Bar in Amsterdam. He holds an LLM in International and European Law, Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam and a BA International Relations (Public International Law) from the Technical University of Dresden. He spent a semester at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, Campus Estado de México. Jan received scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the e-fellows foundation. His Masters thesis dealt with the legitimacy and legality of assisted formation of states.

Jan was a Bosch fellow with the public international law division of the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin and the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He worked in the same function with the rule of law program Sub-Sahara Africa of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya and was a Visiting Fellow with the Constitution Building Team of the International Democracy Assistance Group (IDEA.int) headquarters in Stockholm (Sweden). He was a student consultant with the Amsterdam International Law Clinic and did internships with a MP of the German Bundestag. He participated in a Harvard Model United Nations and a Summer Academy on cognitive sciences.

Jan was an intern with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin during February and March 2006. During his internship, his main responsibility was to assist GPPi's research work on the United Nations Learning to Build Peace project. He also supported GPPi’s evolving work on energy security and assisted in a teaching case on Outsourcing to China and India.