Kenniscentrum Global Governance

Mendeltje van Keulen is sinds 1 januari 2018 lector Changing Role of Europe. Ze studeerde en promoveerde in de Europese Bestuurskunde ( (Europa College Brugge; EUI Florence, Universiteit Twente). Haar proefschrift richtte zich op de effecten van EU-beleidsvorming door de Nederlandse overheid op de terreinen aardgas en biotechnologie. Zij werkte als (senior) onderzoeker bij het Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen 'Clingendael', de WRR (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid) en diverse ministeries. Als teamleider van de parlementaire EU staf in de Tweede Kamer deed zij ruime praktijkervaring op met processen van Europeanisering en organisatieverandering. Mendeltje van Keulen schrijft en spreekt regelmatig over Europese beleidsvorming voor diverse doelgroepen.

Alanna O'Malley is lector/hoogleraar United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice aan respectievelijk De Haagse Hogeschool en Universiteit Leiden. Van 2007 tot 2012 was zij als promovenda verbonden aan het Europees Universitair Instituut (EUI) in Florence. In 2009 werkte ze als gastonderzoeker aan de New York University en in het voorjaar van 2017 was zij als Kathleen Fitzpatrick gastonderzoeker verbonden aan het Laureate Research Program in Internationale Geschiedenis van de Universiteit van Sydney. Van augustus 2017 tot februari 2018 werkte ze met een Fulbright Onderzoeksbeurs aan de Afdeling Geschiedenis van de George Washington Universiteit in Washington D.C. In 2019 ontving ze een startsubsidie van de European Research Council (ERC) voor haar nieuwe onderzoeksproject 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within, The Invisible History of the UN and the Global South’, dat momenteel wordt uitgevoerd.

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Dr. Sylvia I. Bergh is senior researcher at the Centre of Expertise on Global Governance at THUAS. She completed both her D.Phil. in Development Studies and her M. Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, having obtained an M.A. in Arabic and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Sylvia has a keen interest in multi-level governance issues, and has published widely on state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa region, including The Politics of Development in Morocco: Local Governance and Participation in North Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2017), and edited the book The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean: Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance (London: Routledge, 2013). Before her academic career, Sylvia worked at the World Bank, both in the President’s Office in Washington DC and in the Morocco Country Office. She also regularly teaches and consults on evaluations of development projects and programs, and combines her position at THUAS with a part-time position as Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (focusing on PhD supervision).

Since 2017, Tamara has filled various leadership positions within The Hague University of Applied Sciences: first as senior lecturer and team lead at the Bachelor Law Programme and most recently as senior researcher and research coordinator at the Changing Role of Europe Research Group within the Center for Expertise Global Governance. Currently she works for COE as coordinator of professional trainings. Previously she was academic programme coordinator and senior researcher within the TMC Asser Institute and in that capacity designed and implemented the various activities of the Center for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), and fostered and maintained a booming community of academics and practitioners between 2011 and 2017. She was assistant professor at Utrecht University (2009-2011) and adjunct associate professor at Washington College of Law (Washington, DC, USA) (Spring 2011). As legal consultant and trainer, Tamara has provided legal and policy advice for international organisations (EC, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR) and worked extensively with legal professionals in EU countries, South-East Europe, Ukraine, and the MENA region in the frame of trainings and collaborative research projects. Tamara received her law degree from the University of Pécs (Hungary), a Master’s Degree in European Union Law (D.E.A in Droit Communautaire) from Université Nancy 2 (France) and completed her doctoral dissertation (PhD) at Utrecht University School of Law.

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