Dr. Sooahn Meier

Professional experience

• Since 2025: Postdoctoral researcher, working group of Prof. Dr. Sonja Blum, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
• 2022 - 2025: PhD researcher, Collaborative Research Centre 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy”, University of Bremen
• 2023: Trainee, Health Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• 2020 - 2021: Research assistant, Chair of International Organizations, University of Potsdam
• 2018 - 2020: Research assistant, Research Association of the German Democratic Republic State (Forschungsverbund SED-Staat), Free University of Berlin
• 2016 - 2017: General Service Officer, Division of Political and Economic Affairs, Consulate General of Republic Korea in Hamburg / Frankfurt am Main

Education

• Dr. rer. pol., Institute for Political Science, University of Bremen
• MA, International Relations, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and University of Potsdam (joint degree)
• BA, Political Science and International Relations & North Korean Studies (Double degree), Ewha University, Seoul/South Korea
• Semester abroad at the University of Turin (WiSe 2019/20), Free University of Berlin (WiSe 2014/15), Trier University (WiSe 2013/14).

Publication

• Meier, S. (2024). Mandate Expansion into and within a New Domain: OECD and Global Health Governance. Global Society, 38(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2024.2346555
• Meier, S. & Martens, K. (2024). A Global Crisis Manager during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The OECD and Health Governance. Frontiers in Political Science, 6, 1332684. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1332684
• Berten, J., Grabo, K., Kaasch, A., Martens, K., Meier, S., Moore, M., & Panaro, A. V. (2025). Global social policy ideas in the COVID-19 crisis: Ideational change and continuity in the ILO, the OECD, the WHO, and the World Bank. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2025.17