Jan Martin Witte

Jan Martin Witte is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). Jan Martin holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS and the University of Potsdam. He is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis at Johns Hopkins University. Jan Martin received scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation (European Recovery Program Fellowship), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2003, he was the recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler Fellowship for Transatlantic Affairs at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

His work experience include consulting and research assignments at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank (Washington, D.C.), the Office of Development Studies of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). From June 1999 to June 2001 he served as a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Project.

Wolfgang H. Reinicke

Wolfgang H. Reinicke is Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and Managing Director of galaxar s.a., Geneva.

He was a Senior Scholar with the Brookings Institution (1991-1998) and a Senior Partner and Senior Economist in the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank in Washington D. C (1998-2000). In 1999-2000, he directed the Global Public Policy Project in Washington D. C. which provided strategic guidance on global governance for the UN Secretary General’s Millennium Report. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

He holds degrees from Queen Mary College of London University (B.Sc. in Economics) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A. in International Relations and Economics) and received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.

His areas of expertise include global governance, global finance, international economic institutions, public-private partnerships and global public policy networks as well as EU-US relations. His numerous publications include Global Public Policy. Governing without Government? (Brookings Institution Press 1998), and Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (with Francis Deng, Thorsten Benner, Jan Martin Witte, IDRC Publishers 2000).