Curriculum vitae Email: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spam-Bots geschützt, Sie müssen Javascript aktivieren, damit Sie es sehen können Latest Publications Download : Martina Timmermann 16.01.09 Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities, in: Timmermann, Martina and Jitsuo Tsuchiyama (2008), Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional Steps towards Global Governance,  Tokyo: UNUP, pp.1-18. Downloadable at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11556/ Dr. Achim Deja and Dr. Martina Timmermann, Going Beyond Charity, in: Global Compact Yearbook 2007, Münster: Macondo, 2008, pp. 110-111.    (see references/documentation/publication)

Since 2008     TIMA International, Vice President and Managing Director for International Projects & Capacity Building

Project Director UN Global Compact  - Conceptualizing - training - support 

• designing PPPs within the framework of the UN Global Compact
• finding and liaising with potential international  cluster partners (especially in Asia)
• capacity building/training measures in and for international UN GC PPPs 
• supporting clients with their UN GC Communication on Progress (CoP)

• Results in 2008

• TIMA CoP 2007
  
• TIMA publication on Compliance
• TIMA Code of Conduct
• TIMA article in German Global Compact Yearbook/Macondo 2008
• Supporting TIMA clients with UN GC related publications, e.g. articles in the German Global Compact Yearbook/Macondo 2008

Special achievement:

On 23 June 2008, her article "EU-ASIA Human Rights Policy: Pursuing the Path of Institutionalism", in: Asian-European Relations - Building Blocks for Global Governance?, ed. by Jürgen Rüland et. al., Routlege 2008, pp. 143-172, was recommended by the library of the German Bundestag

2004-2007   UNU Director of Studies on Human Rights and Ethics, Academic Programme Officer Peace and Governance Programme, UNU headquarters in Tokyo and Bonn. 

1. Project director (Institutionalizing Northeast Asia - Making the Impossible Possible? ( In cooperation with Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan)
   
• result in 2008:  Book - Timmermann/Tsuchiyama (eds.) Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional steps towards global governance. Tokyo: UNUP)
2. Project director "The Human Rights Special Procedures - The Role of the Special Rapporteur" (conducted in coop with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden;
• result in 2007: the "Lund Declaration", tabled as UN document (A/HRC/5/18) during the 5th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2007;
• it resulted from a project workshop with a group of UN special rapporteurs and eminent human rights specialists organized in Lund, May 2007. 
3. Project director (Women's Health Initiative for Improving Women's Health in India -  A PPP within the framework of the UN Global Compact.  (In cooperation with KARL STORZ GmbH and BMZ/GTZ)
   
• interim achievement in December 2006   UNU workshop on "The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) - PPP within the framework of the UN Global Compact " with representatives from the BMZ, GTZ, KARL STORZ, UNIDO, with the UNU rector and UN undersecretary general, the Special Adviser on the GC to the UN Secretary General, the NRW Minister of Health, the senior adviser to EC vice president Margot Wallstroem, and the ambassador  of the Republic of Namibia to Germany.
• result in 2009 - Book "Improving Women's  Health and Human Rights in India - A PPP within the Framework of the UN Global Compact (tentative title), - with a foreword by Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and current president of the Business Leaders Initiative for Human Rights (BLIHR)
  

Other achievements at UNU:

• June 2006, organiser, lecturer and tutor of the UNU International Courses (IC) on Human Rights;developing a new praxis relevant seminar module which received excellent results in a public presentation by her international students to the diplomatic community, the Japanese public and several UN directors in Tokyo.
• March 2006,  one of the head organisers and master of ceremony of International Women's day at United Nations University; winning German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for exclusive video messages. (The webcast is available at http://c3.unu.edu/unuvideo/index.cfm?fuseaction=event.home&EventID=82) 
• February 2006,  UNU head organiser of the joint Japan-EU-UNU conference "Global Partnership for Eradicating Poverty" ; subsequently designer and co-author of UNU policy brief 6/06 with policy recommendations resulting from the conference (see references/theme paper/unu policy brief No 6)

 
2000-2003   Institute of Asian Affairs (IFA),  Project director (DFG), “The human rights politics of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia: Mirror of ‘Asian Identity’?”, Hamburg, Germany

• 2002 German delegate to ASEM-track II conference on gender issues in Tampere, Finland
• Results: 2 books and several articles of which five are downloadable at: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pti67.html

1994-1999   Research fellow/assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Trier, teaching International Relations, and Foreign Policy with a focus on Asia. During that time: