Asya Zhelyazkova
Asya Zhelyazkova is Associate Professor in European Politics and Public Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is also IMP’s master coordinator. Her research interests focus on EU and national public policy, enforcement of EU policy, European integration, democracy and the rule of law. She has coordinated a number of research projects, including one funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that focuses on domestic legislative and practical responses to EU policies.
She is currently co-coordinating a Hirozon Europe Project titled TWIN4DEM: Strengthening Democratic Resilience Through Digital Twins. Within IMP, she supervises master's theses and gives a workshop on research design.
Clara Egger
Clara Egger is Assistant Professor in Global Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests broadly focus on the political economy of crises and crisis-management policies, relief aid, the interaction between democratisation and development processes, and the domestic origins of international cooperation. Her ongoing projects include the ZonMw-funded EXCEPTIUS project – analysing the modalities, determinants and impacts of Covid-19 containment policies on democratic governance and human rights in Europe, as well as the NEWCOMERS project focusing on the origins of disaster-management institutions in the Global South. She teaches the 'International Organisations and Development and the Professional Development: Preparation for the Labour Market' courses within IMP.
Vincent Homburg
Vincent Homburg is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the ERA Chair of 'e-Governance and Digital Public Services' at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His research focuses on e-government (both as a national and Dutch phenomenon and in comparative research). Vincent also actively contributes to the literature on public management and information systems. He teaches the course 'International Public Management' within IMP.
Maria Schiller
Maria Schiller is Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Migration, and Diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research is motivated by the desire to understand and capture the dynamics of migration and diversity, with a particular focus on Europe. She investigates policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy, and governance networks, and often taking a comparative approach. She holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Kent. With Peter Scholten, she teaches the course 'Comparative Public Policy' in the IMP master's programme.
Markus Haverland
Markus Haverland is the Chair of Political Science at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on EU policymaking, comparative politics, comparative public policy and case study designs. His most recent research focuses on the impact of politicisation on EU agenda setting, decision-making, compliance and interest intermediation, both in general and concerning financial and economic regulation. He teaches 'European Union Policy Making' within IMP.
Michal Onderco
Michal Onderco is Professor of International Relations at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He teaches courses on global governance, EU foreign policy and security studies. His research focuses on the domestic politics of foreign policy (particularly on Europe and South Africa), and informal cooperation processes in global governance (with particular emphasis on nuclear governance). His most recent research project focuses on the link between emerging technology and nuclear disarmament. Within IMP, he teaches the courses 'Global Governance', and 'EU in the World'.
Pieter Tuytens
Pieter Tuytens is Assistant Professor in the Management of International Social Challenges at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research uses comparative political economy to focus on questions regarding the relationship between welfare and finance and the politics of long-term policymaking. He serves as a policy expert for the European Social Policy Network and is involved in an ongoing H2020 project on sustainable neighbourhoods (PROBONO). Within IMP, he teaches 'International Organisations and Development'.
Saliha Metinsoy
Saliha Metinsoy is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests broadly concern the interlinkages between domestic and international politics, with a specific focus on global governance institutions and policies. Previously, she studied how international politics and policies, particularly structural adjustment programmes of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), redistribute economic resources, foster inequalities in society, and prompt political discontent and collective mobilisations against those programmes. Her most recent research unpacks the 'labour market' and examines gendered inequalities created by the IMF and World Bank programmes. She teaches 'Global Governance' and 'International Society and Democratic Institutions' within the IMP master's programme.