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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”.

Dr. Anan Alsheikh Haidar is a research fellow at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne, Germany. She worked at the same institute as a Phillipp Schwartz fellow from July 2016 to December 2018.

Dr. Haidar studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Damascus, Syria, and received her Diploma in Law in 2000. She earned her Master of Laws (LLM) in Advanced Legal Studies as a Chevening scholar at the School of Law at the University of Reading, UK, in 2005, followed by her Ph.D. in Law in 2010 in the principal subjects of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Security Studies. She worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Damascus University from 2010 to 2014, as well as at the Syrian Virtual University.