Marie Walter-Franke

PhD candidate in the fully funded doctoral programme Human Rights under Pressure, a cooperation between the Freie Universität and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Topic: The Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System – Measuring the impact of the policy output of co-decision on asylum protection at the national level

Managerin von drei Fachzeitschriften: EStAL (European State Aid Law Review), EPPPL (European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review), RELP (Renewable Energy Law and Policy) Review and ENLR (European Network Law and Regulation Quarterly)

Intern within the research group “EU external relations”. Supervisors: Dr. Andreas Maurer and Dr. Bettina Rudloff. • Publication of 3 working papers and participation to counselling sessions • Research assistance for projects on the Lisbon treaty, “land-grabbing” and the European security architecture • Report on the 2009 CFSP review conference

Assistant at the Berlin representation of BVI in charge of lobbyism (federal/regional governments and assemblies) • Management of the secretariat in context of financial crisis and reopening of Parliament • Preparation of events (thematic research, political profiling, logistics) • Management of PR/Communication Databases

Research assistant of Prof. Subrata K. Mitra, head of the political science department at the SAI • Translation of his article « Level-playing fields : The Post-Colonial State, Democracy, Courts and Citizenship in India » into French in view of its publication in France. • Participation to the research project « Citizenship in India »

Internship in the administration of the Nouveau Théâtre de Novembre- XXe Théâtre, Paris • Assistant of Julia Lenze, administrator for everyday tasks (contracts with artists, communication documentation, financial management) • Constitution of a PR database to develop the theatre’s communication

Assistant at the department for Communication & Press Relations of BIOTHERM • Management of the PR service’s workaday in relations with the country subsidiaries • Redaction of PR files and constitution of press release files • Realization of the Biotherm Brand presentation for the L’Oréal International Summit Proof-reading of the 2007-2008 Brand presentation file (French, English, and German)

• Management of the secretariat and the switchboard, contact with the clients (France, Germany, UK, USA…) • Logistical organization of consultant’s business trips, business lunches and a Symposium

Topic: Framing refugees in the Common European Asylum System

Grade: Distinction EU foreign policy, EU migration and asylum policy, Political economy of post-communist transition and EU integration in CEE, European integration Dissertation: « Reforming the Common European Asylum System - Assessing the Impact of procedural change on policy-making

• Political science (New wars theory, European integration, negotiation theory, justice and peace-building) • History (political and social history of the GDR, race and ethnicity in US History) • Anthropology (Introduction course)

Grade: Cum Laude • EU institutional and material law • Europeanization of national policies • Theory and praxis of the European politics and policies • EU lobbyism • Co-decision simulation • Group project: series of publications and conference on "Power Europe"