Responsibilities
Political Systems and European Integration
International Public Administrations/IO bureaucracies; Budgeting in International Organizations; Resourcing for international refugee policy; United Nations
Contact
Room:
G 102
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180-9043
Email:
svanhildur.thorvaldsdottir@gsi.lmu.de
Work group
DFG-Project "Resource Mobilization in International Public Administrations" as part of the DFG-Research-Unit "International Public Administration".
Further Information
Website: thorvaldsdottir@gsi.lmu.de
Vita
Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir is a post-dotoral research fellow Chair in Political Systems and European Integration at the Department of Political Science (Geschwister-Scholl-Institute) at the University of Munich. Her current research focuses on the bureaucratic politics of international organizations, especially the United Nations, with a special focus on budgeting and finance.
Prior to her PhD studies, Svanhildur was a Senior Policy Analyst at the International Peace Institute in New York City, where she researched the UN‘s response to transnational threats and challenges, with a particular emphasis on climate change.
Svanhildur completed her MA and PhD in political science from the University of Rochester. She also holds a BA degree and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University.
Teaching
- Seminar: Research Design in International Relations
- Undergraduate Courses
- The U.S. in the Middle East, University of Rochester, Spring 2017
- Introduction to International Relations, University of Rochester, Summer 2015