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Hans Peter Schmitz serves as the Bob and Carol Mattocks Distinguished Professor in Nonprofit Leadership at North Carolina State University. He does research on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and global advocacy focused on human rights, global health, or economic equity. In his recent research, he explores the role of digital media and billionaire philanthropy in shaping the broader context of global activism. The scholarship explores how institutional and normative constraints prevent INGOs from accomplishing their lofty missions. The methods approach emphasizes spoken and written practitioner perspectives, including how they understand their accountability, the effectiveness of their actions, how they think about advancing social justice, and how they prepare for, and respond to, changing external conditions.Hans Peter Schmitz received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole/Italy. He is the co-founder and former Research Director of the Transnational NGO Initiative at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs/Syracuse University.

Listed skills include International Relations, Nonprofits, Ngos, Global Health, and 14 others.