Julia Steets is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. Her research and consulting work focuses on international development, humanitarian assistance, public-private partnerships as well as monitoring and evaluation. She currently heads GPPi´s 'Cluster Approach Evaluation' project, 'Humanitarian Assistance' project as well as the 'Global Review of Cause-Related Marketing' project. Julia was also responsible for GPPi's 'Raising the Bar' project, the 'Development of the Secretary-General's Report', the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, and the 'UNICEF Global Strategy' project for collaborative relationships and partnerships.

Prior to joining GPPi as a project manager in 2004, Julia was a program manager at the Körber Foundation’s Bergedorf Round Table in Berlin, a consultant with Transparency International’s London office as well as an election observer for the OSCE. Julia’s publications include Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships (forthcoming 2010), Partnerships for Sustainable Development: On the Road to Implementation (Berlin 2006), Waltz, Jazz or Samba? The Contribution of Locally Driven Partnerships to Sustainable Development (Berlin 2005), and Palästina (Munich 2001 and 2004, co-authored with Dietmar Herz). Julia has taught at the universities of Bonn and Greifswald and at Berlin’s Humboldt University.

Julia holds a PhD in social science from the University of Erfurt, and holds an M.Sc. in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University where she was a McCloy Scholar. She received fellowships from the German National Academic Foundation as well as the London LSE’s McKenzie Prize for Outstanding Performance.

Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Russian