Who We Are

Staff Programme Associate

Zaira Malik

Zaira Malik is a Programme Associate for the Postgraduate Degree and Training Programme.

Expert Capacity Development Coordinator

Cristina Mancigotti

Cristina Mancigotti is a Capacity Development Coordinator at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.

Expert Research Intern

Thomas Manders

Thomas Manders is a research intern at UNU-CRIS.

Expert Research Intern

Aakriti Maraseni

Aakriti Maraseni is a Research Intern at UNU-CRIS

Expert Researcher

Dr. Katrin Marchand

Katrin Marchand is a researcher at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.

Expert PhD Fellow

Alberto Maresca

Alberto Maresca is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS and Ghent University. He is working on the agency of Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) in the emergence of a multipolar world order.

Expert Associate Research Fellow

Rossella Marino

Rossella Marino is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University.

Expert Visiting Research Fellow

Filippo Marinoni

Filippo Marinoni is a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS.

Expert Assistant Professor

Julieta Marotta is an assistant professor at UNU-MERIT. Julieta holds a PhD from Maastricht University/United Nations University on access to justice and legal empowerment of victims of domestic violence. Her research interest is in inclusive forms of access to justice and legal empowerment through empirical legal research. Currently, she is conducting research on children's access to justice.

Advisory Committee Member External Member of the Advisory Committee

Maria Marques

She has been a full professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra since 2003 and a permanent researcher at the Center for Social Studies of that faculty since 1979. She served as the Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization in the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal.