Biography

Nele Kortendiek is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of International Institutions and Peace Processes at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a principal investigator in the research group Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics (transMID), where she directs the sub-project “International Organisations: Norm-Setting and Norm Implementation for the Protection of Refugees”.

For her PhD on the role of international organisations in migration and asylum governance, Nele conducted field research at the European external border in Greece as well as in Brussels, Geneva, Valletta, and Warsaw.

Kortendiek is a political scientist who specialises in International Relations (IR). Generally, her research focuses on contestation and change in global governance. Her key interests include policy-making in international organisations, the influence of non-state actors on global politics, the implementation of international rules on the ground, European and international migration and asylum politics, and normative questions of borders and democracy beyond the state. At the EUI, she will investigate new forms of policy-making in times of global transformation.

Mentor

• Stephanie Hofmann