Matthias Thiemann
Matthias Thiemann is Full Professor of European Public Policy at Sciences Po. In his research, he investigates the increasing use of the European field of development banking within and outside the European Union to achieve policy goals, both as a policy tool within (climate) and abroad (enlargement). His work has shown how the austerity of the […]
Mihai Varga
Mihai Varga (PhD 2011 in sociology, University of Amsterdam) is a senior researcher at the Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His current research focuses on the political economy of agricultural reforms and of infrastructural development in the wider Black Sea region. His latest book is Poverty as Subsistence. The World Bank and Pro-Poor […]
Clara Volintiru
Clara Volintiru is a high-ranking official currently serving as Secretary of State within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) of Romania. Earlier, Clara was the regional director for the Black Sea region of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She previously was a senior expert for various international organizations such as the World Bank, the European […]
Visnja Vukov
Visnja Vukov is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She holds a PhD of the European University Institute in Florence and an MSc of the University of Oxford. Before joining the University of Vienna, she was as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and […]