BTI Board

The project is carried out in consultation with an interdisciplinary board of experts that helps to define the project focus, identifies challenges and debates project results.

Members of the BTI Board:

Dr. Franz-Lothar Altmann

Associate Professor, University of Bucharest; Board Member, Southeast Europe Association, Munich

Dr. Matthias Basedau

Deputy Director, GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg; BTI Regional Coordinator West and Central Africa

Prof. Dr. Klaus Bodemer

Senior Fellow, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, Hamburg

Dr. Martin Brusis

Managing Director of the Project Network “Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism,” Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, University of Munich; BTI Regional Coordinator East-Central and Southeast Europe

Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant

Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg; BTI Regional Coordinator Asia and Oceania

Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter

former Chairman of the Management  Board, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH,  Eschborn

Dr. Stefan Empter

Senior Director, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh

Dr. Jörg Faust

Head of Department "Governance, Statehood, Security", German Development Institute (GDI), Bonn

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Heilmann

Managing Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Chair of Comparative Government, University of Trier

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Kienle

Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Institut d’Etudes Politique (IEP) de Grenoble

Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer

Vice President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel

Director,  Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performances, Challenges, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB); Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. em. Dr. Franz Nuscheler

Senior Fellow, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg

Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Puhle

Institute for Political Science, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Siegmar Schmidt

Head, Political Science Department, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau; BTI Regional Coordinator South and East Africa

Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Schröder

Head, Research Division Russia / CIS, German Institute for International and
Security Affairs (SWP) & Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Peter Thiery

Department of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg; BTI Regional Coordinator Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr. Jan Claudius Völkel

Researcher, Borderlands Project, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence; BTI Regional Coordinator Middle East and North Africa

Prof. Dr. Uwe Wagschal

Chair of Comparative Politics, Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg

Prof. em. Dr. Helmut Wiesenthal

Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin