Nina Hall is a lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance. She is currently researching transnational advocacy in the digital era. She is interested in the emergence of a new form of activist organization which are digitally-based and identify as: membership-driven, nimble, multi-issue, and progressive. Interestingly, these internet era organizations are spreading across the globe from South Africa to India, Germany to New Zealand and are all connected through a common international network. Her research asks: how did these groups emerge? And what impact do their campaigns have?
Nina has also researched the evolution of international organizations in the 21st century. Her recently published book is Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond Their Mandates (Routledge 2016). The book examines how international development, migration and refugee organizations have responded to climate change, an issue outside their original mandates. She has written on climate adaptation financing, the intersection of climate change and humanitarianism and is currently collaborating with Åsa Persson (Stockholm Environment Institute) on global climate adaptation governance. Alongside this research, Nina has explored the effectiveness and role of leaders in international organizations. She co-authored a World Economic Forum report on effective leadership in multilateral institutions and is collaborating with Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, on the impact of leaders in international organizations. Her work has been published in Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance and the Australian Journal of Political Science.
Nina completed a doctorate in International Relations at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. At Oxford she was an editor of the St Antony’s International Review. She previously worked for a short period at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as an intern with UNICEF Nepal and the UN Department of Political Affairs in New York. Nina completed a Masters in Political Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, looking at the pursuit of gender equality in East Timor post-independence. She has published on the East Timorese campaign against domestic violence, and has an ongoing interest in transnational activism on the environment, social-justice and migration.
A current list of Nina Hall´s publications is available online.
