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Research Programme Global Governance and Democratic Government
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Matthias Lievens is a postdoctoral researcher for the multidisciplinary programme on ‘Global Governance and Democratic Government’ who joined the Centre in November 2010. Matthias studied political science, philosophy, anthropology and history, and defended his PhD in philosophy entitled ‘Spectres of the Political: Uncovering the Metapolitical in Carl Schmitt’ at the end of 2009 at the K.U. Leuven. He has a long-standing critical interest in Marx and Gramsci, and has also been working on authors such as Etienne Balibar, Antonio Negri, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière. Matthias’ research interests include post-foundational political philosophy, (post-)Marxism, theories of the political and depoliticisation, radical democracy, Gramsci, (alter)globalisation, political ecology. |
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Stephanie Bijlmakers joined the Centre on November 8 2010 as a PhD candidate in the research programme ´Global Governance and Democratic Government`. She works with Prof. Dr. Geert van Calster on global human rights governance with a special focus on corporate social responsibilities and the role, responsibilities and regulatory initiatives of business enterprises. Stephanie has an interdisciplinary background in social sciences and humanities and a LLM in Law and Language Studies (2009) from Maastricht University. Throughout her studies, she specialized in human rights. She completed parts of her degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile and the Université Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille III in France. |
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Haye Hazenberg is a junior research member on the research programme ‘Global Governance and Democratic Government’ who joined the Centre in November 2010. He is conducting a PhD in political philosophy dealing with the requirements for a justice theory of global governance, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Helder de Schutter. Haye studied Politics and Law at University College Utrecht and UCLA and obtained an Msc in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously worked at an NGO in Burundi and as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament. His interests include associative democracy, multiculturalism, human rights theory and global justice. |
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Alessandro Mulieri is conducting a PhD in political philosophy on the concept of democratic representation and joined the Centre in November 2010. He is a staff member of the project "Global Governance and democratic government'. Alessandro has a degree in Political Philosophy (BA and MA) from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He worked as a journalist within in the Italian parliament for four years and as a foreign correspondent from London. His interests are political philosophy, democratic theory, comparative politics and European affairs. He is now focusing on a realist democratic theory. |
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Kenneth Chan joined the Centre on in December 2010. He started research on the 'global peace and security governance' track of the ‘Global Governance and Democratic Government' project and is completing his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jan Wouters. He has a background in law, receiving an LLB (hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2009) and read for his LLM (adv) in Public International Law at the University of Leiden (2010). He has interned at the ICTY on the Stanisic trial and the Coalition for the ICC, acting as an independent legal observer for the Lubanga and Katanga/Ngudjolo trials. His main interest is international criminal law. |
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Sven Van Kerckhoven is working on the project “Global Governance and Democratic Government”, in which he conducts research from a political economy perspective on global economic governance with an in-depth exploration of the WTO and the G-20. He joined the Centre in November 2010 as a PhD researcher. Sven obtained a BSc of Applied Economics, a MSc of Business Economics and a MSc of International Politics at the K.U. Leuven. Prior to joining the Center, Sven did an internship at the Belgian Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia where he drafted a report on the problem of corruption in Croatia. Currently, Sven His main interest include (but are not limited to): political economy, international trade, development economics, transition economies and eastern European politics. |
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Emilie Bécault is engaged in the development of a new paradigm for democratic global governance with a special focus on the elaboration and implementation of a post-2012 climate change regime. She joined the Center for Global Governance Studies in December 2010 as part of the research programme on “Global Governance and Democratic Government.” Emilie is a graduate from the University of Chicago and the Ohio State University where she gained a background in international relations, political theory, and historical sociology. Her interests include global environmental governance and democratic theory. |
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Nicolas Hachez is a researcher and PhD student at the institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, active on the multidisciplinary programme on ‘Global Governance and Democratic Government’ since October 2011. Nicolas obtained his Belgian law degree magna cum laude from the universities of Namur (2001) and Louvain-la-Neuve (2004), as well as an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law (2007), as a Fulbright and BAEF Fellow. Prior to joining the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Nicolas worked for two years as an associate attorney in the Brussels Office of an international law firm. Nicolas' research interests include the private regulatory phenomena in global governance (in particular the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement), as well as the related issues involving legitimacy, participation and democracy in international law-making. Nicolas' research at the Centre also focuses on international investment law, and on the impact of international investment on host countries' human development. Nicolas is also a member of the drafting committee of the Journal de Droit Européen (JDE). |
