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Sabine Donner

Transformation Index BTI
Senior Expert
Sabine Donner is Senior Expert at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and directs the BTI project “Shaping Change – Strategies of Development and Transformation”.
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Sally Broughtom Micova

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Fellow in Media Governance and Policy
Sally Broughtom Micova is LSE Fellow in Media Governance and Policy and Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she completed her PhD in December 2013. Before entering academia she was head of Media Development and Spokesperson for the OSCE Mission to Skopje for several years.
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Sandra Weiss

Journalist
Sandra Weiss is a political scientist and former diplomat. Since 1998 she has been reporting from Latin America as a correspondent for German and international media. She currently lives in Mexico.
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Sean Carey

School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Sean Carey is honorary senior research fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and fellow of the Young Foundation. He has written on Mauritius for The Guardian, The Independent, New African and African Business.
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Seda Gürkan

Leiden University
Assistant Professor
Seda Gürkan works as Assistant Professor in European Approaches to Security, Diplomacy and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University. She is a country expert for Turkey at the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI).
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Serhat Ünaldi

Bertelsmann Stiftung
Project Manager
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Shamil Shams

Journalist
Shamil Shams works as a reporter and editor for Deutsche Welle in Bonn, Germany.
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Sharinee L. Jagtiani

Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sharinee L. Jagtiani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam. She is also an Associate at the Institute for Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford and has published on Indian foreign policy, Indo-Pacific security, technology policy, and the international relations of the Global South.
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Sophia Boddenberg

Freelance Journalist
Sophia Boddenberg studied journalism and social and political sciences in Latin America. As a freelance journalist she reports from Latin American countries, covering politics, women’s rights, indigenous populations and environmental conflicts.
  • sophiaboddenberg.com
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Stanley Azuakola

Civic Monitor
Executive Director
Stanley Azuakola is founder and executive director of Civic Monitor, a Nigerian non-profit that works to facilitate a more engaged and informed citizenry in Africa.
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Stefan Ehlert

Journalist
Stefan Ehlert is from Gütersloh in East Westphalia in Germany. With his family, the historian and journalist lives as a freelance Africa correspondent in Maputo, Mozambique. He works for the epd, Deutschlandfunk, ARD radio and the Schwäbische Zeitung, among others. From 2001 to 2007 he reported on East and Central Africa from Nairobi. Since 2008, he has also reported on North and West Africa for the ARD radio studio Rabat. After a radio traineeship in Hamburg, he was a reporter and editor of the "Berliner Zeitung" in the late 1990s. Ehlert authored the biography "Wangari Maathai - Mother of the Trees. Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize winner".
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Stephan Giersdorf

University of Heidelberg
Research Fellow
Dr. Stephan Giersdorf is a research fellow at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include democratization studies, authoritarian regimes, civil society studies and quantitative conflict research. His regional focus is on South and South East Asia.
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Susanne Schultz

Bertelsmann Stiftung
Project Manager
Susanne Schultz is project manager in the "Making Fair Migration a Reality" project at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. She holds a PhD in Migration and West Africa and is an Associated Research Fellow at the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD).

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Sylvia Croese

University of Cape Town
Research Fellow
Sylvia Croese is a research fellow at the African Centre for Cities and at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She conducts research on urban governance and development in Africa. In addition, she is also a contributor to www.urbanafrica.net
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Szabolcs Panyi

Direkt 36
Journalist
Szabolcs Panyi is a journalist at Direkt36, a non-profit investigative journalism center in Budapest, Hungary. He covers corruption and national security related stories with a focus on Russian and Chinese influence in Central Eastern Europe. He received the Soma Award for the best Hungarian investigative journalism in 2015 and 2016, the Quality Journalism Award in 2017, and was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2018.
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