Global Policy Forum

Antje Schultheis, Political Scientist (B.A and M.A), joined Global Policy Forum (GPF) as Programme Officer in September 2009.

In July 2009 she finished her PhD thesis on the politics of international investment agreements: Story Lines und Forum-Shifting of the EU (her thesis defence will take place in December 2009).  During her research time she spent several months in Bangladesh and West Africa (mainly Ghana). She has also taught at the University of Siegen, Germany, on a freelance basis.

During her maternity leave (2006/7), she gained a qualification in Project- and Process Management at the University of Bochum, Germany.

As coordinator of the „Trade Justice Now" campaign from May 2003 until December 2004, she was responsible for the coordination and action plans as well as membership liaison and public relations. Before that she was a Project Consultant at the Forum for Environment and Development in Bonn.

During the whole of 2001 she worked as a Campaigner for WEED (World Economy Ecology and Development), responsible for the campaign on Export Credit Guarantees. Since 1999 Antje has volunteered for the working group on Trade of the Forum on Environment and Development.

Included in the scope of her work and studies were trips to the WTO minister conferences in Seattle and Cancún, the G8 Summits (for example in Genoa) and presentations and publicity work on the politics of trade and development.

Between 1995 and 2002 she studied political science, German Philology and Sociology at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and at the University of Bristol, UK (1997/8).

Contact: antjeschultheis[at]globalpolicy.org