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Rainer Braun
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
rb2060@columbia.edu
Biography:
Rainer Braun co-teaches the course "Human Rights and Development Policy" at SIPA. His research interests are the political economy of human rights, labor rights, and corporate social accountability.
Rainer currently works as a research analyst for GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), a ratings agency that compares the governance practices of publicly traded companies. He also serves as an adjunct professor at LIU's United Nations graduate program, where he teaches research methods and statistics. In the past, his human rights related work included positions with the National Human Rights Commissioner of Honduras and the UN office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Rainer holds a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Bremen and an M.A. in political science from the Free University of Berlin, where he is currently finishing his Ph.D. in political science.