Jan Martin Witte is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and Country Representative of Living Goods Uganda, based in Kampala. His areas of expertise include international development, international organizations (with a focus on the United Nations), Corporate Social Responsibility and transatlantic relations.

Jan Martin’s work experience include consulting and research assignments at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank (Washington, D.C.), the Office of Development Studies of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), New York. 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 UN reform, global governance, and transatlantic relations, most recently Transforming Development? The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in International Development (Berlin: GPPi 2008), Trends in Non-Financial Reporting (Berlin: GPPi 2006) and Business UNusual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships (New York: UN Publications 2005).

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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