Melina
Tretmans is a PhD researcher at the Chair of International Institutions and
Peace Processes. She did her Bachelor in Arabic and Communication in
Maastricht, with a stay abroad at the University of Jordan in Amman and an
internship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Oman. Furthermore,
she completed an Erasmus+ voluntary service in Rabat (Morocco) and an
internship at the Dutch NGO New Dutch Connections. She holds a Master's degree
in Conflict and Development from Ghent University. From 2022 until 2023 she was
a research fellow at the Chair of Global Governance at Zeppelin University
(Friedrichshafen).
Within the DFG research group transMID (Transnational
Mobility and Institutional Dynamics), Melina Tretmans works as a researcher in
the subproject “International Organisations: Norm Setting and Norm
Implementation for the Protection of Forced Migrants". In this project, she
investigates gender and disability norms in IOM and UNHCR.
