Jan Ortgies

Jan Ortgies is currently a fellow of the Robert Bosch Postgraduate Programme in International Affairs. 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. His Masters thesis dealt with the legitimacy and legality of assisted formation of states. During his bachelors he spent a semester at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City, Campus Estado de México. Jan receives scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes),
the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the e-fellows foundation.

Jan's positions during his Bosch year are the public international law division of the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, and the rule of law program Sub-Sahara Africa of the Konrad-Adenauer
Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya. His prior work experience includes the Amsterdam International Law Clinic, internships with Globl Public Policy Institute and a MP of the German Bundestag. He also 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.