Tim Maurer

Tim Maurer is a Research Assistant with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is a student of political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University Berlin. His research interests focus on global governance, peace and security, and international organizations with a particular emphasis on the United Nations. His current research project deals with UN reforms on “system-wide coherence”. Tim’s most recent article “UNity in Diversity – One UN, UNHCR and Rwanda” was published in the December 2007 issue of the University of Oxford’s Forced Migration Review.

His experience includes working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva (2007) and in Kigali, Rwanda during 2006. In 2007 Tim was an intern with the German Parliament assisting the Green Party’s Working Group on International Politics and Human Rights. From 2004-2005, he worked for the French association France Terre d’Asile in Paris.

Tim is a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and has also received scholarships from the DAAD and Rotary International.

Languages: English, German, French