Centre of Expertise Global Governance

Mendeltje van Keulen is lector Changing role of Europe since 1 January 2018. She has a PhD and MA European Public Administration (College of Europe, Bruges; EUI Florence, University of Twente). Her dissertation focused on the effects of EU policy shaping by the Dutch government in the field of natural gas and biotechnology. She worked as a (senior) research fellow for the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘ Clingendael’, the WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) and various ministries. As team leader of the parliamentary EU staff in the Dutch parliament, she gained abundant practical experience in processes of Europeanisation and change management. Mendeltje van Keulen regularly publishes and teaches on European policy making for students and professionals.

Alanna O’Malley is Professor of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Leiden University. She completed a PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 2007-2012. In 2009, she was a Visiting Scholar at New York University, in Spring 2017 a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney and from August 2017-February 2018 she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the History Department of George Washington University in Washington D.C. In 2019 she was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her new research project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within, The Invisible History of the UN and the Global South.

Dr. Sylvia I. Bergh is senior researcher at the Centre of Expertise on Global Governance at THUAS. She completed both her D.Phil. in Development Studies and her M. Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, having obtained an M.A. in Arabic and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Sylvia has a keen interest in multi-level governance issues, and has published widely on state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa region, including The Politics of Development in Morocco: Local Governance and Participation in North Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2017), and edited the book The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean: Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance (London: Routledge, 2013). Before her academic career, Sylvia worked at the World Bank, both in the President’s Office in Washington DC and in the Morocco Country Office. She also regularly teaches and consults on evaluations of development projects and programs, and combines her position at THUAS with a part-time position as Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (focusing on PhD supervision).

Since 2017, Tamara has filled various leadership positions within The Hague University of Applied Sciences: first as senior lecturer and team lead at the Bachelor Law Programme and most recently as senior researcher and research coordinator at the Changing Role of Europe Research Group within the Center for Expertise Global Governance. Currently she works for COE as coordinator of professional trainings. Previously she was academic programme coordinator and senior researcher within the TMC Asser Institute and in that capacity designed and implemented the various activities of the Center for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), and fostered and maintained a booming community of academics and practitioners between 2011 and 2017. She was assistant professor at Utrecht University (2009-2011) and adjunct associate professor at Washington College of Law (Washington, DC, USA) (Spring 2011). As legal consultant and trainer, Tamara has provided legal and policy advice for international organisations (EC, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR) and worked extensively with legal professionals in EU countries, South-East Europe, Ukraine, and the MENA region in the frame of trainings and collaborative research projects. Tamara received her law degree from the University of Pécs (Hungary), a Master’s Degree in European Union Law (D.E.A in Droit Communautaire) from Université Nancy 2 (France) and completed her doctoral dissertation (PhD) at Utrecht University School of Law.