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List of Authors and Editors
Andrea Berg is Director of Programs at the German section of Amnesty International. Her
work focuses on human rights advocacy, challenges of democratization and NGO management.
She was a Central Asia researcher with the Europe and Central Asia division at
Human Rights Watch and director of the organization’s Uzbekistan office. Prior to that,
she worked for the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of
Hamburg. She holds a doctorate of political science from the Ruhr-University Bochum.
Sarah Brockmeier is a project manager at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in
Berlin. She works on mass atrocity prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, UN peacekeeping
and German foreign policy.
Wolfgang Büttner joined Human Rights Watch in 2005 when its Berlin office was set up.
He is in charge of advocacy work with the German government and of all communications
and press matters. Mr. Büttner studied history, political science and economics in Germany,
Sweden and France and holds a Master Degree from Free University Berlin. Mr.
Büttner has been the author of several books and brochures on the history of the UNESCO,
on violent ethnic conflict in Corsica, the Basque Country and on the European Union.
Ulrike Guérot is Professor and Director of the Department for European Policy and the
study of Democracy at the Donau-University in Krems. She also works as a publicist,
author and analyst on European integration and Europe in the international arena. She is
founder and director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL), a think tank at the European
School of Governance in Berlin. Prior to that, she headed the Berlin office of the European
Council on Foreign Relations and taught at the European University Viadrina, the Bucerius
Law School in Hamburg, INSEAD Singapore and Johns Hopkins University.
Andrea Kämpf is Senior Policy Adviser at the German Institute for Human Rights and
coordinates the Institute advisory project on implementing human rights in development
cooperation. Her focus areas are accountability, multilateral development banks and the
promotion of civil society. A lawyer by training, she is also a lecturer on human rightsbased
approaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and frequently
works as consultant for both state as well as non-state development organisations. Prior
to joining the Institute, she has been working on EU development projects, for the OSCE,
as a researcher at Humboldt University’s law faculty and for a European NGO.
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