Stephan Mergenthaler is a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is also a PhD Candidate in International Politics at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin. His research interests focus on international security, international organizations, European foreign policy and the politics of East Asia. For his PhD studies, he was awarded a scholarship by the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft).

His experience includes work with the International Institute for Strategies Studies in London, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington D. C., the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi, the German and French Ministries for Foreign Affairs in Berlin and Paris, and the German Mission to the UN in New York. He was a legislative intern with the US House of Representatives Committee on International Relations/European Affairs and the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also worked with a number of NGOs including the Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation in Ningbo, China and the Fundación Chiriboga in Quito, Ecuador.

Stephan holds an M.Sc. (Practice of International Affairs) from the London School of Economics and a Master in International Affairs from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). In 2003-2004 he spent a year at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington D. C., and he is a graduate of Sciences Po’s Franco-German undergraduate program.

Languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian