Yasemin Pamuk

Yasemin Pamuk is Director of the South Caucasus Project of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. She holds degrees in Islamic Studies and Political Science from Heidelberg University and Turkic Studies from Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg. From 2006 to 2009 Ms. Pamuk was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”. She was member of the research project “Good Governance without the Shadow of Hierarchy? The EU Neighbourhood Policy and Anti-Corruption Measures in the Southern Caucasus.” Her PhD focuses on the role of informal institutions in areas of limited statehood in the former Soviet Union.