Core Staff
Meet the core staff behind Global Transformations and Governance Challenges that consists of a Professor, Assistant Professor, two Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Candidate and two Programme Officers.
Core staff
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Valentina Carraro is a member of the GTGC core staff, working as Assistant Professor in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. Her research interests include the governance of human rights- and violence-related challenges, global and regional human rights governance, state compliance with international law, and the use of expertise in public bodies. You can learn more about her work here.
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Yassine El Guendouzi is working as Programme Officer within the GTGC initiative and is, amongst others, responsible for the communication and helps organizing conferences and events. Yassine received a master degree in the field of crime sciences. His research interests include terrorism, radicalizaiton, and political violence. You can learn more about his work here.
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Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate and Programme Officer in the GTGC initiative. She studied History (BA Cum Laude, 2017) and International Relations (MA Cum Laude, 2020), and worked for non-governmental peace and human rights organizations in between. Her research interests include violent conflict in the twenty-first century, global entanglements in governing security challenges, and in particular the role of non-state actors herein. You can learn more about her work here.
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Jan Aart Scholte chairs the GTGC Steering Group as Leiden University's Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He has previously convened other interdisciplinary global studies research initiatives based in Britain, Germany and Sweden. His main current research interests include polycentric governing of global problems, legitimacy in global governance, global democracy, complex hegemony, and Internet governance. You can learn more about his work here.
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Shiming Yang is a member of the GTGC core staff, working as University Lecturer in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. She is interested in global environmental politics with an emphasis on developing countries. Her research projects aim to explain the evolving landscape of global environmental negotiations, rising power politics in environmental governance, and comparative environmental policy. Her other published work investigates China’s political economy, environmental health, and political economy of global health. You can learn more about her work here.
