Julia Steets

Julia Steets is associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. Her research and consulting work focuses on international development, humanitarian assistance, public-private partnerships as well as monitoring and evaluation. She currently heads the projects: Evaluation of OCHA’s Regional Office in Western and Central Africa; Evaluation and Review of Humanitarian Access Strategies in DG ECHO-funded Interventions; Humanitarian Coordination in a Changing World; and Food Security: A Mapping of European Approaches. Julia was also responsible for (among others) the Uniting on Food Assistance project, the Real-Time Evaluation of UNICEF's Response in Northern Yemen, the Cause-Related Marketing Review, the Evaluation of the Cluster Approach, the Raising the Bar project, the UN-Business Partnerships report, the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment study and the development of 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 Uniting on Food Assistance: The Case for Transatlantic Policy Convergence (forthcoming in 2012), Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), Humanitarian Assistance: Improving US-European Cooperation (Berlin 2009, edited with Daniel Hamilton), 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. She also holds an MSc in history of international relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was a McCloy Scholar. She received fellowships from the German National Academic Foundation as well as the LSE’s McKenzie Prize for Outstanding Performance.

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Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Russian