Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar (D.Phil, Oxon) has served as president of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) for close to a decade. She is professor of international relations at Hamburg University and an honorary fellow of Darwin College at the University of Cambridge. She serves as senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and at Research and Information System for Developing Countries. Before being appointed to the GIGA presidency, she was ‘reader’ (‘professor’ under the university’s internationally aligned system) in international political economy at the University of Cambridge.

Her recent publications include the co-edited centenary special issue of International Affairs, ‘The How Not to Guide for International Relations’ and (single-authored) Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond.