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Maja Bovcon

Verisk Maplecroft
Senior Analyst
Maja Bovcon is senior analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a global risk analytics and strategic consulting firm based in UK. Her research focusses on the political, economic, social and security situation in West African countries. She holds a PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Oxford.
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Manuela Andreoni

Journalist
Manuela Andreoni is a journalist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has worked for newspapers, magazines and television programms in Brazil and abroad, such as The Sunday Times, The Globe and Mail, O Globo, Agência Pública, BBC Panorama. She currently is a reporter at Columbia Journalism Investigations.
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Marco Bünte

Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Professor
Marco Bünte is Professor of Asian Politics and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is one of 250 country experts contributing to the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI).
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Marco Bünte

Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Professor
Marco Bünte is Professor of Asian Politics and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is one of 250 country experts that contribute to the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI).
  • pol.phil.fau.de/person/marco-buente/
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Mariana Llanos

University of Erfurt, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Professor
Mariana Llanos holds the joint professorship for “Democratic Institutions in the Global South” between the University of Erfurt and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).
  • giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/llanos-mariana
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Marina Vulović

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
Research Associate
Marina Vulović (PhD) is an associate in the project "Geostrategic Competition for the EU in the Western Balkans" at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
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Mark Turner

University of New South Wales
Visiting Professor
Mark Turner is a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. He is one of 250 country experts who are currently working on the forthcoming edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index BTI 2016 which will be released at the end of February 2016.
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Markus Karbaum

Dr. Karbaum Consulting & Coaching
Managing Director
Dr. Markus Karbaum studied political science and has been working as an independent consultant since 2010, focusing on Cambodia and Southeast Asia.
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Martin Plaut

Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Journalist and Senior Research Fellow
Martin Plaut is a freelance journalist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies focusing on the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. He is the former Africa editor of BBC World Service News.
  • martinplaut.wordpress.com/
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Mat Youkee

Journalist
Mat Youkee is a freelance journalist and a political analyst covering Latin America from Bogotá, Colombia.
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Michael Brüntrup

German Institute of Development and Sustainability
Senior Researcher
Michael Brüntrup is a Senior Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
  • idos-research.de/michael-bruentrup/
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Michael Gahler

European Parliament
Member
Michael Gahler has been a Member of the European Parliament of the German CDU in the European People's Party since 1999 and is Vice President of the European Movement Germany. He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and security policy spokesman for the EPP Group in the European Parliament.
  • europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2341/MICHAEL_GAHLER_home.html
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Mikayel Zolyan

Regional Studies Center, Yerevan
Political Analyst
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Miriam Kosmehl

Bertelsmann Stiftung
Senior Expert
Miriam Kosmehl has been Senior Expert in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Europe’s Future Program since 2017 working on the Eastern Partnership region from Berlin.
  • globaleurope.eu/blogger/miriam-kosmehl-ll-m/
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