Kerstin Martens, author of the UN study, is a Senior Researcher in the Collaborative Research Center ‘Transformations of the State’at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research interests include NGOs, the UN, international organizations and education policy.
She is the author of NGOs and the United Nations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and has published various articles in journals such as Human Rights Quarterly, Voluntas and Global Society on the issue of NGOs in world politics. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence.