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Tamás Matura

Corvinus University Budapest
Associate Professor
Dr. Tamás Matura is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, where he specializes in Chinese foreign policy, EU-China relations, and Sino-Hungarian affairs. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington D.C., contributing to its Democratic Resilience program.
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Tamirace Fakhoury

Lebanese American University in Beirut
Assistant Professor
Tamirace Fakhoury is an assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut and currently a Humboldt fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies in Hamburg, Germany. Her latest article in Current History, “Lebanon’s Perilous Balancing Act”, discusses the country’s governance dilemmas in the wake of the Syrian conflict. Tamirace Fakhoury is one of 250 country experts of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) 2016.
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Tanja Eschenauer-Engler

Heidelberg University
Researcher
Tanja Eschenauer-Engler is a researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University. Her work focuses on civil-military relations, armed forces in autocracies, and military coups. From 2015 to 2019, she worked in the „Dictator's Endgame“ project. Together with Jil Kamerling and Prof. Aurel Croissant, she co-created the The Political Roles of the Military (PRM) dataset.
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Ted Piccone

Ted Piccone

World Justice Project (WJP)
Chief Engagement Officer
Ted Piccone is Chief Engagement Officer at the World Justice Project (WJP) and member of the BTI's Advisory Board.
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Thomas de Waal

Carnegie Europe
Senior Fellow
Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe based in London. He is the author of several books on the Caucasus, including “The Caucasus: An Introduction” and “Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War.”
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Thomas Kalinowski

Ewha Womans University
Associate Professor
Thomas Kalinowski is associate professor at Ewha Womans University’s Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul and a long-time BTI expert of South Korean society, economy and corruption.
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Thomas Rausch

Bertelsmann Stiftung
Senior Project Manager
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Tilman Lüdke

Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute (ABI)
Senior Researcher
Tilman Lüdke is Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) and a BTI country expert on Turkey. His main research interests are the relations between Germany and the Middle East in historical perspective, political Islam, nationalism in the Middle East and the history of the Cyprus Conflict.
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Tobias Scholz

King's College London and National University of Singapore
Doctoral Candidate
Tobias Scholz is a doctoral candidate at King’s College London and the National University of Singapore, where he is completing a dissertation on continuity and change in India’s foreign and security policy and India’s global role. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin.
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Tsedale Lemma

Addis Standard
Editor-in-Chief
Tsedale Lemma is founder and editor-in-chief of the Addis Standard, an English publication that reports critically on domestic and foreign sociopolitical and socioeconomic current affairs impacting Ethiopia.
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