Tim Maurer

Tim Maurer is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. In his current research, he focuses on international affairs and Internet policy. His areas of expertise include cyber security, the United Nations (especially UN coordination) and humanitarian action.
 
Tim's commentary has been featured by Foreign Policy, on PRI’s The World, in the Kommersant and other outlets. In 2011, he presented his research at the international cyber security conference in Berlin, the National Institute of Justice’s annual conference, and a UNODC symposium in Vienna. His research also includes a study on transnational organized crime for the White House National Security Staff.

Tim was a visiting fellow at GPPi from July-August 2010. His experience includes working at 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 a McCloy fellow concentrating on international and global affairs. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a 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