Daniel Naujoks

Daniel Naujoks

Research Interest

Professor Daniel Naujoks is the director of the International Organization & UN Studies Specialization at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs – SIPA, where he also directs the UN Partnership Initiative. His research focuses on global governance, the effects of migration, refugees, and citizenship on social, economic, and political development, as well as interagency cooperation between UN agencies, including his book ‘Migration, Citizenship, and Development’ (2013, Oxford University Press). Dr. Naujoks regularly advises governments and international organizations—including UNDP, IOM, World Bank, ILO, UN-DESA, OECD, UN Women, UNESCWA, and UNICEF—on issues of migration, diaspora engagement, human rights, displacement, and development. He serves as chair of the section on migration, refugees and diaspora of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, past chair of ISA’s Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies section and as editor of the journal Diaspora Studies and the blog Multilateralism in Action. He holds a PhD in political science and political economy from the University of Münster and a law degree from Humboldt University in Berlin.