Curriculum Vitae |
2016 |
Consultant/Trainer for an e-learning course on “Gender and Human Rights”; Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) |
2015-16 |
Analysis of the child and youth rights focus of programs and projects of the German governmental development cooperation (2012-2015) for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (together with F. Seidensticker); ICON Institute Consulting Group |
2015 |
Organisation and coordination of a study tour for the Chairman of Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Rights, project “Supporting Advocacy for Human Rights in Pakistan” of Democracy Reporting International (DRI) |
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Consultant/Trainer, development of curriculum and teaching of an e-learning course on “Engaging men and boys in gender equality programming”; Human Right Education Associates (HREA) |
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Court Mediator, Greater Boston District and Municipal Court Mediation Program; Mediation Works Inc. (MWI) |
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Evaluation of the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights (together with F. Seidensticker and O. Mandil); Misereor |
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Fellow in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and Consultant/Trainer for an e-learning course on “Gender and Human Rights”; Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) |
since 2014 |
Programme Officer at Seidensticker Coaching and Consulting |
2014 |
Report on “Instruments for the Monitoring of the Implementation of the Child Rights Convention” for the Child Rights and Development Cooperation Project (together with Dr. Anna Holzscheiter); German Institute for Human Rights |
2012 – 2013 |
Organisation and coordination of study trips for delegations of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights and the Tunisian Constitutional Assembly, project of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |
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Research/scientific consulting on the topic “Human Rights of LGBTI in Development Cooperation”, project of the German Institute for Human Rights |
2012 |
Teamleader, “Stakeholderanalysis” in the field of human rights in Egypt, project of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |
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Short-term mission, “Needs and Capacity Assessment” of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, project of the German Institute for Human Rights |
2011 |
“Dimensions of and approaches to the work with men in the field of gender equality in development cooperation”, study for the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |
2010 |
Projektmanager, consultancy for Plan International Germany. Study, workshop and conference on the topic “Towards climate smart programming in Plan”, Project of the Potsdam Center for Policy and Management (PCPM) |
2003 – 2007 and since 2012 |
Egypt expert and member of the Egypt coordination group of Amnesty International, German section |
Seit 2007 |
Regular positions as visiting lecturer at the University of Potsdam and the Free University Berlin |
2003 |
Iraq-crisis team, Amnesty International, German section, department for public relations and campaigns |
2002 – 2003 |
Organisation and coordination of a lecture series and a colloquium on the topic “National and international protection of human rights”, German Institute for Human Rights |
Formal Education, Training |
2014 |
Chamber of Industry and Commerce Berlin (IHK): Train the Trainer (IHK certificate) |
2013 |
Potsdam Graduate School and teamwerken | de: Konfliktmanagement |
2010 |
University of Potsdam, Economics and Social Sciences Faculty, Germany: PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in International Relations |
2006 |
Amnesty International, Frankenwarte Academy: Lobby and Research in the field of Human Rights |
2005 |
German Institute for Human Rights: National and International Human Rights Protection |
2000 |
University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy, UK: MA in International Relations and Political Theory |
1996 – 2000 |
Undergraduate and graduate studies of political science, sociology and international law in Rome, Munich and London |
Publications |
2013 |
The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization. NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran (New York, London: Routledge) |
2011 |
“OHCHR”, in K. Freistein and J. Leininger (Hrsg.), Handbuch Internationale Organisationen – Theoretische Grundlagen und Akteure (München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag) |
2006 |
“Global norms, local activism – Advocacy NGOs and the socialisation of women’s human rights in Egypt”, in J. Franzke (Ed.): Making Civil Societies Work – Zivilgesellschaft und gesellschaftliche Praxis (Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam) |