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Judith Berns is a member of the department "International Science" at the University of Cologne. She is working for the Cologne Global Study Program as well as the Welcome Centre for International Scholars. Within the Cologne Global Study Program she is in charge of the coordination of the program, such as student support and planning of lectures, as well as the examination administration. Furthermore she is teaching the competence course "Intercultural Issues in Academia". 

Judith is holding a Master in "Intercultural Communication and Education" obtained at the University of Cologne and completed an Intercultural Trainer Program at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has been working for the International Office of the University of Cologne since 2014. Together with Dr. Johannes Müller she received the University Prize (2019) for outstanding engagement within the Cologne Global Study Program.

Eva Lynders is researcher in the programme on Inter- and Transnational Cooperation at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. She holds a master's degree in International Relations and Development Policy from the University of Duisburg-Essen and is Alumna of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy. Her main research interests include the functionality of transnational networks and the role of digitalisation, EU external relations and factors for global cooperation, specifically with regard to the 2030 Agenda. 

Dr. Johannes Müller is head of department “International Science” at the University of Cologne (UoC). Among others, he is responsible for the Welcome Centre for International Scholars, for At-Risk-Scholars Support, for International Networks and for Digital Internationalization. 

Furthermore, he is Director of Studies of the Cologne Global Study Program of the UoC, where he also teaches History of Europe and of European Integration. Johannes holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Fiesole/Italy) and is an alumnus of the Universities in Frankfurt/Main, Cologne and Florence (Italy). He held fellowships at the European University Institute (Fiesole/Italy), and at the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz), and worked for the Historical Agency Reder Roeselin & Prüfer (Cologne), before joining University of Cologne in 2007. 
He has done research and published on German and Italian political, social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th century, and on the history of science.

Benjamin Naujoks is an academic assistant at the Jean Monnet chair for  European History at the University of Cologne (UoC). He is doing his PhD about „Lithuania and Europe“.

Benjamin has been part of the teaching team of the CGSP for years, with a teaching focus on contemporary European history, cultural history, and global perspectives. His fields of interests are: History of Europe (in particular CEE and history of Lithuania), Economic history, and global history.

Rada Popova is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna (mag. iur.) and currently works as a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Cologne. She teaches international law, EU law, European legal history and constitutional law in English and German. Her research interests include in particular the areas of international law, environmental law, space law, cyber law and the cross-section between technology and legal regulation. As a lawyer, Rada has provided expertise in projects with governmental and industrial stakeholders. Previously, she has carried out work for the UNODC (Vienna) and for the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Dr. Wulf Reiners is senior researcher and head of the ‘Managing Global Governance’ (MGG) programme of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Since 2020, he is also coordinator of the Horizon2020/MSCA project PRODIGEES – Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe towards Sustainable Development. From 2015 to 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul and academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module ‘INSITER – Inside the Turkey-EU Relations’. In the functions of researcher, lecturer and project director at the University of Cologne between 2007 and 2015, he also worked on EU institutions, governance and external action, together with securitisation and global health. Reiners holds a PhD in political science and has published in numerous fields of international relations, global governance and EU studies. He has continuously lectured since 2007 at international universities on a wide field of related issues, was a Marie Curie Visiting Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh (2013) and is winner of the “University Award 2013” of the University of Cologne for excellent academic achievements in the field of “Teaching and Studies.” 

Frank Schulz-Nieswandt holds the Professorship for Social Policy and Methods of qualitative Social Research at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) and is executive director of the Seminar for Corporative Research at the University of Cologne. He had been dean of the Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Science at the University of Cologne and is current first vice dean.

His focus areas of research and teaching due to interdisciplinary gerontology are situated at an interface between issues of integrated medicine, local community networking of care structures and housing in old age, of european law and social services as well as services of public general interest , of anthropology and cultury history of the social policy of mutual help and also of the third sector and forms of active citizenship together with groups concerning self-related self-help.