Oliver Stuenkel

Oliver Stuenkel is a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and a PhD candidate at the University Duisburg-Essen. His research interests focus on rising powers and global governance; specifically on India and Brazil's foreign policy and their impact on global governance and the international aid architecture. His interest also include Latin American and South Asian geopolitics.

Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) in São Paulo, Brazil. His commentary has been published by Today’s Zaman (Turkey), Mail and Guardian (South Africa), among others, and he regularly writes foreign policy op-eds in Brazilian newspapers.

His work experience includes a teaching assistantship at Harvard University, projects with the United Nations in Brazil, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Fiji, and the Mercosur Secretariat in Uruguay. Oliver was also a consultant in the Budapest Office of Solon, a management consultancy, and a school teacher in rural Rajasthan, India.

Oliver received a B.A. from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain and a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was a McCloy Scholar.

Languages: German, Dutch, English, Hindi, Urdu, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese