Corinna Wagner is the team assistant at the Chair of European and Global Governance, supporting the team in all administrative and organizational tasks.

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Dr. Florence Dafe is a political economist at the Chair of European and Global Governance of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research and teaching cover a number of themes related to international political economy and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on global financial governance. Florence’s research interests revolve around finance and development, especially the domestic and external political constraints that governments in developing countries face in governing their financial sectors. The question which drives her research is how much policy space governments in developing countries have in governing their financial sectors in a context of globalisation and financialisation. Florence has written on the factors which shape the structural power of finance in developing countries, the strategies developing countries pursue in navigating global banking standards, the spread of financial inclusion policies, the political economy of central banking in developing countries, and the development of local currency bond markets in Africa. Prior to joining the Chair of European and Global Governance, Florence was a Fellow in International Political Economy at the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London. She is also an associate researcher at the German Development Institute. Florence holds a Masters degree in Development Studies from the LSE and a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. Since 1 July 2021 she is also a Honarary Research Fellow at the Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick.

Publications (selection)

• 2024: Varieties of Capitalism and Patient Capital in Developing and Emerging Economies: Evidence from Kenya, Socio-Economic Review, mwae074, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae074 (with Upadhyaya, R.)
• 2023: Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination, Dev Change, (with Kaltenbrunner, A., Kvangraven, I.H. and Weigandi, I.) https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12797.
• 2021: Tussle for space: The politics of mock-compliance with global financial standards in developing countries, Regulation & Governance, (with Engebretsen, R.E.H.) https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12427.
• 2020: Banking on courts: financialization and the rise of third-party funding in investment arbitration, Review of International Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1764378.
• 2019: Ambiguity in International Finance and the Spread of Financial Norms: The Localization of Financial Inclusion in Kenya and Nigeria. Review of International Political Economy, 27(3): 500-524.
• 2018: Fuelled Power: Oil, Financiers and Central Bank Policy in Nigeria. New Political Economy. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1501353.
• 2018: Localising Sovereign Debt: The Rise of Local Currency Bond Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Economy (with D. Essers and U. Volz). DOI: 10.1111/twec.12624
• 2018: Balancing Multiple Central Bank Objectives: Lessons from Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda on Walking a Tightrope. In M. Ndulo and S. Kayizzi (eds.), Financing Innovation and Sustainable Development in Africa, 150-181. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• 2018: Demystifying Green Bonds. In S. Boubaker, D. Cumming and D. K. Nguyen (eds.), Research Handbook of Investing in the Triple Bottom Line. Chapter 15. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (with K. Berensmann and N. Lindenberg).
• 2017: The Politics of Finance: How Capital Sways African Central Banks. Journal of Development Studies, p.1-17. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1380793.
• 2016: A financial sector to support development in low-income countries. In: S. Griffith-Jones and R. Gottschalk (eds.), Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa, 1-21. Oxon: Routledge (with S. Griffith-Jones and E. Karwowski).
• 2015: Developing local currency bond markets for long-term development financing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 31 (3-4), p.350-378 (with K. Berensmann and U. Volz). DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grv032.

Homepage

www.florencedafe.com

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Dr. Burak Giray is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of European and Global Governance at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy. His research and teaching interests include international responses to civil conflicts, with a particular focus on UN interventions and peacekeeping operations. His current research examines how public services provided by UN peacekeepers affect the conflict dynamics. For that, he collects an original dataset on the peacekeeping activities conducted in conflict countries, mining and analyzing the official Twitter accounts of UN Peacekeeping Operations. Before joining HfP, he taught at the Hertie School in Berlin and served as a visiting researcher at Uppsala University. His year-long research stay in Sweden was funded by the DAAD PRIME Fellowship. Dr. Giray earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Houston, USA, in 2022.

Publications (Selection)

• Giray, Burak and J. Tyson Chatagnier. (2024). Election Accomplished: Democracies and the Timing of Peacekeeper Drawdowns. Political Research Quarterly, 77(1), 3-16. DOI: 10.1177/10659129231190614.
• Giray, Burak. (2024). Do UN Missions Have an Expiration Date? Ideational Commitment to UN Peacekeeping and the Length of Missions. International Peacekeeping, 31(1), 1-28. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023. 2246362.
• Giray, Burak. (2023). Ideational Commitment to UN Peacekeeping and Effectiveness. International Interactions, 49(3), 372-400. DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2023.2184813.
• Giray, Burak. (2022). Public Support for UN Missions and Attacks on Peacekeepers: Evidence From the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 28(4), 305-332. DOI: 10.1515/peps-2022-0028.

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https://www.burakgiray.com

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Tamara Bertl is a research associate and PhD student at the Chair of European and Global Governance since October 2021. Her research interests focus on European integration and the delegation of power to international organizations. She studied Political Science and History (B.A.) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and spent one academic year at Duke University (USA) within the framework of the DAAD ISAP program. She completed her Master's degree in Politics and Technology at the Technical University of Munich. During her studies she was involved in the research project "International Bureaucracies as "Runaway Agents"? How Organizational Structure Affects Agency Slack" by Prof. Dr. da Conceição-Heldt. She gained practical experience at the BMW Group, the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union in Brussels and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.