Patrick Köllner
Patrick Köllner is Vice President of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and Director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies. He is also Professor of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. He studied at the universities of Konstanz and Essex and holds a doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a habilitation from the University of Trier. His research interests revolve around political organisations and institutions in Asia from a comparative perspective. He currently works on think tanks in Asia and is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on comparative area studies.