Ms. Marianne Beisheim
Senior Researcher, Global Issues Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany
Dr. Marianne Beisheim is senior researcher at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) – the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Her research focuses on sustainable development governance. She is an expert on the follow-up and review processes of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Marianne Beisheim is a member of the UN-Political Advisory Board of the German Federal Foreign Office. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the German Science Platform Sustainability 2030. Ms Beisheim is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Development and Peace Foundation (sef:) and a member of the Research Council of the United Nations Association Germany.
From 2003 till 2010, Dr. Beisheim was Assistant Professor for International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2006 to 2017, she directed a DFG-funded research project on multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development. Her recent publications include: Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned and Actors' Views on the UN’s Meta-Governance (with Nils Simon, in: Global Governance, 2018, 24: 4), UN Reforms for the 2030 Agenda. Are the HLPF’s Working Methods and Practices “Fit for Purpose”? (SWP Research Paper 2018/RP 09).