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Team Assistant

Corinna Wagner

Office: H.402
Phone: +49-89-907-793 – 011
E-Mail: governance(at)hfp.tum.de

 

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

 

Dr.

Tony Müller

Office: H.406
Phone: +49-89-907-793 – 027
E-Mail: tony.mueller(at)hfp.tum.de

Resume

Dr. Tony Müller is a science manager and lecturer at the Chair of European and Global Governance at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy (HfP). His research focuses on Global Governance, Policy Entrepreneurship, and Two-Level Game Theory.

In his role as a science manager, Dr. Müller is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to advance the research activities at the chair. This includes building and maintaining national and international partnerships, coordinating internal interfaces, and managing third-party funded projects. Another focus of his work lies in strategic process management for the digitalization of university structures, as well as in modern science communication to make research results accessible and impactful. From 2016 to 2022, he served as Chief of Staff to the reform rector of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy and the (founding) dean of the TUM School of Governance.

Dr. Müller earned his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich with distinction (magna cum laude), focusing on “Policy Entrepreneurship in European and Global Institutions: How, Why, and With What Consequences.” He completed his Master of Arts in International Relations as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., and received his Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Technical University of Dresden. 

Publications (selection)

 

Dr.

Florence Dafe

Office: H.409
Phone: +49-89-907-793 – 020
E-Mail: florence.dafe(at)hfp.tum.de

Resume

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

 

Dr.

Burak Giray

Office: H.405
Phone: +49-89-907-793 – 025
E-Mail: giray.burak(at)tum.de 

 

Resume 

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.

Homepage

https://www.burakgiray.com

 

M.Sc.

Tamara Bertl 

Office: H.412
E-Mail: tamara.bertl(at)tum.de

Resume

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. 

 

Dr.

R. Melis Baydag

Lecturer
Office: H.410
E-Mail: melis.baydag(at)tum.de

Resume

Dr. R. Melis Baydag is a lecturer at the Chair of European and Global Governance at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich. She is also affiliated as a researcher at the Department ‘Inter- and Transnational Cooperation’ at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and as a lecturer at the Chair of International Politics at Ruhr University Bochum. 

As a political scientist specializing in International Relations, her research focuses on international political economy (IPE), domestic politics theories, politics of aid, international cooperation, and middle powers. Her primary research examines the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, looking at societal forces on foreign economic policies with a particular focus on development aid. More recently, inserting decision makers-centred frameworks of foreign policy analysis (FPA), her ongoing efforts are dedicated to forging an integrative research agenda that bridges IPE and FPA. Additionally, her work at IDOS addresses the concepts of like-mindedness and the enlargement dynamics of international organizations. Dr. Baydag teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that cover IR theories, global (economic) governance, emerging powers, international organizations, and regional and European integration.

Before her current roles, Dr. Baydag was a research associate and lecturer at the Chair of International Politics at Ruhr University, where she obtained her PhD in Social Sciences with distinction (magna cum laude). She has held various guest researcher positions at IDOS and was a visiting lecturer at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Wrocław. Dr. Baydag holds a BSc and MSc in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.

Publications (Selection)

  • Baydag, R. M. & Villanueva Ulfgard, R. (2025). Populist narratives and personalized national role conception in middle powers: The cases of Mexico and Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Politics & Policy 53(1), e12645, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12645
  • Baydag, R. M. (2024). Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: The case of Mexican development policy. Contemporary Politics, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2024.2428529
  • Baydag, R. M. (2024). Positions of Established and Emerging Powers towards Climate Finance: The Cases of Germany and Korea. In Klingebiel, S., Kalinowski T. & Keijzer, N. (Eds.) Emerging trends in international development and climate policy (pp 39–52), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65671-2_4
  • Baydag, R. M. & Klingebiel, S. (2023). Partner country selection between development narratives and self-interests: A new method for analysing complex donor approaches. Review of Development Economics 27(2), 1199-1223. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12954
  • Baydag, R. M. (2021). Middle powers in international development cooperation: Assessing the roles of South Korea and Turkey. In Chaturvedi, S. et al. (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of development cooperation for achieving the 2030 agenda (pp. 435–449), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_20
  • Baydag, R. M., Klingebiel, S., & Marschall, P. (2018). Shaping the patterns of aid allocation: A comparative analysis of seven bilateral donors and the European Union. Discussion Paper (No. 22). German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn. https://doi.org/10.23661/dp22.2018

Homepage

www.melisbaydag.de

 

Dr.

Henning Schmidtke

Lecturer
Office: H.407 
Phone: +49-89-907-793 – 022

 

Dipl.-Reg.-Wiss.

Julia Esser-Grimm

Doctoral Student
Office: H.412

 

Dr.

Nikolai Gad

Research Fellow
E-Mail: nikolai.gad(at)hfp.tum.de

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