Who We Are

Expert Chief Operations Officer

Christina McElwaine

Christina McElwaine is Chief Operations Officer at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research.

Staff Senior Finance Assistant

Mário Meira

Mário Meira has been at UNU-EGOV since August 2014.

Staff Communications Associate

Avelino Jr. Mejia

Avelino Jr. Mejia is a Communications Associate for the Innovation and Education (IVE) programme at UNU-IAS.

Expert Researcher

Dr. Ortrun Merkle

Dr. Ortrun Merkle is a researcher at UNU-Merit and Maastricht University. Her research focuses on the nexus of corruption and gender and corruption and migration.

Expert Lead, Ecological Modeling and Food Security

As an agroecologist and modeler, Dr. Mohsen Mesgaran works at the interface of agriculture, ecology, and technology, employing quantitative approaches that utilize a variety of modeling techniques, including statistical/mathematical models, physiological (crop growth) models, and machine learning (AI).

Expert Professorial Fellow

Trisha Meyer

Trisha Meyer is a Professorial Fellow at UNU-CRIS since January 2019, where she is involved in the GREMLIN project on Global and Regional Multistakeholder Institutions.

Expert Principal Research Specialist

Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen

Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen has been with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2016.

Expert Lead, Hydroclimatic Diagnostics

Prof. Simon Michael Papalexiou

Professor Simon Michael Papalexiou’s research is at the forefront of hydroclimatic variability and extremes, bridging advanced space–time stochastic modeling, downscaling, and climate change diagnostics.

Expert Project Manager

Alexandra Mieth

Alexandra Mieth is a Project Manager at UNU-EHS.

Expert PhD Fellow

Justine Miller

Justine Miller is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS and Ghent University. She is working towards understanding the concept of the "Spaghetti bowl" of regional integration under the supervision of Samuel Standaert.