Chair of Public Administration & Public Policy

Sebastian Korb is a research fellow at the Chair of Public Administration and Public Policy at Zeppelin University

where he contributes to the Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations project.

Sebastian’s primary research interests encompass development cooperation and the impact of donor practices on development effectiveness. He particularly focuses on the determinants and implications of organizational learning within international development organizations.

Sebastian earned a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Political Science from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He later pursued a Master’s degree in International Relations and International Organizations from the Dresden University of Technology (best of the year) with a visiting semester at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City. During his Master studies he gained first experiences working in development cooperation with an internship at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. After completing his studies, he continued to work at GIZ as a technical advisor in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.