Tim Maurer

Tim Maurer is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). In his research, he focuses on foreign policy and global governance, at the moment cybersecurity in particular. His two most recent papers – Cyber Norm Emergence at the United Nations (September 2011) and WikiLeaks 2010: A Glimpse of the Future? (August 2010) – were published by Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research interests also include the United Nations, especially coordination in the pillars of the UN system. In 2007 he published an article on the coordination of humanitarian assistance in the magazine Forced Migration Review.

From 2010-2011, Tim worked on a research project for the White House that examined transnational organized crime, a project related to the National Security Council’s new Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime. He was also a visiting fellow at GPPi from July-August 2010. His experience as well includes working for the United Nations in New York from 2008-2009 and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva in 2007 and in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2006. Tim was a research assistant with GPPi in 2008.

Tim received a Master of Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was McCloy fellow concentrating on international and global affairs. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Rotary International.

Languages: English, German, French