Jan Martin Witte is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. His areas of expertise include energy policy, international development, international organizations, Corporate Social Responsibility and transatlantic relations. He is currently based in Kampala (Uganda), and serves as an Energy Sector Development Adviser for the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). He also serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) of Johns Hopkins University.

Jan Martin’s work experience include consulting and research assignments at the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). From June 1999 to June 2001 he served as a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Project, Washington D.C. Jan Martin has published widely on issues of energy policy, international development, UN reform, global governance, and transatlantic relations, most recently “Back to the future or forward to the past? Strengthening markets and rules for effective global energy governance” (International Affairs, Vol.85, No.2, March 2009); “Transforming Development? The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in International Development” (Berlin: GPPi 2008); and “Trends in Non-Financial Reporting” (Berlin: GPPi 2006). He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on global energy governance "Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game" (Washington, DC: Brookings Press, forthcoming) and will also publish a book on the history of OPEC “50 Jahre OPEC: Kartell zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht” (Munich: Hanser Verlag, forthcoming).

Jan Martin received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (European Recovery Program Fellowship), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2003, he was the recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler Fellowship for Transatlantic Affairs at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

Jan Martin holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He also received a Diploma in Political Science from the University of Potsdam.

Languages: German, English, French

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