Biography
Nele Kortendiek is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of International Institutions and Peace Processes at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a principal investigator in the research group Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics (transMID), where she directs the sub-project “International Organisations: Norm-Setting and Norm Implementation for the Protection of Refugees”.
For her PhD on the role of international organisations in migration and asylum governance, Nele conducted field research at the European external border in Greece as well as in Brussels, Geneva, Valletta, and Warsaw. For her dissertation, she has been awarded the best dissertation prize by the German Political Science Association (DVPW) as well as an honourable mention by the European International Studies Association (EISA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University and the Global Governance Unit at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Her book “Global Governance on the Ground – Organizing Migration and Asylum at the Border” was published by Oxford University Press in 2024 and received the Chadwick-Alger-Award.
Nele is a political scientist who specializes in International Relations (IR). Generally, her research focuses on contestation and change in global governance. Her key interests include policy-making in international organisations, the influence of non-state actors on global politics, the implementation of international rules on the ground, European and international migration and asylum politics, and normative questions of borders and democracy beyond the state. At the EUI, she will investigate new forms of policy-making in times of global transformation as well as crisis governance by international organizations.