Public event

Policy & Pizza: The Role of International Cooperation, from Security to Sustainability

Do the current events and crises that dominate the headlines keep you up at night? Do you ever wish that someone would help you make sense of it all? Our experts here at the Hertie School are there for you, and they've even brought pizza.

Join guest speaker Melanie Hauenstein, Director of the Germany Representation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for a Policy & Pizza session discussing the role of international cooperation, with a focus on the interlinkage between security, sustainability and development.

As with our ‘Policy and Pizza’ sessions, this is an opportunity to engage directly with practitioners and leaders shaping the world of policy and international relations in a meaningful way. Bring your questions!

This discussion is being held in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme. The event is public, will be in English, and will be hosted at the Hertie School Main Forum in Berlin. There will be no live stream. Due to limited seating, registration is required.

Free drinks and pizza will be served from 6:00 pm, and the talk will begin at 6:30 pm.

Please register in advance via the form on right or by sending an email to m.poet[at]hertie-school[dot]org

Speaker

  • Melanie Hauenstein is the Director of the UNDP Representation in Germany. She brings many years of experience from various positions within UNDP and the United Nations system. Prior to joining the UNDP Germany Representation Office, she headed the UNDP country office in Lebanon as Resident Representative. Before that, she worked at the UNDP headquarters in New York as a regional advisor responsible for Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Libya, and the Maghreb states. In 2016, she gained experience in the field of international security policy as a senior advisor for stabilization for the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as office manager of the UN peacekeeping mission in northern Mali (2014-2016).

    Hauenstein holds a Master's degree in Population and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and previously studied international politics, sociology, and economics in Regensburg, Leipzig, and Paris.

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