• Evaluator - Team Leader

Anna Sting

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Anna Sting has been working as an evaluator and team leader at DEval since January 2024. Previously, she held a position as researcher and project manager at the Phenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies in Amman, Jordan. There, she was responsible for managing several development projects, studies, and evaluations for national and international partners in the fields of social protection, green economy and just transition, economic participation of vulnerable groups (with a focus on women and PwD) and decent work, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030.

As a freelance project consultant, she further developed several safeguarding analyses focusing on environmental, human rights and gender aspects for planned development projects in Jordan, at the interface of socio-economic and ecological objectives.
Before her stay in Jordan, Anna Sting coordinated a project aiming to foster public debate about Europe at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University Berlin. She also served as a policy officer for an association of providers of services of general interests and as a researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She holds an LL.M. in Public International and European Law from Erasmus University. During her bachelor's studies, she majored in European Laws with minors in European Studies and Dutch Law.

Key Qualifications

Thematic focus

Social protection

Green Economy

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Economic participation of vulnerable groups

Decent Work

Methods

Mixed methods, with a focus on qualitative methods

Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA)

Gender transformative approach

Regional Focus

Southwest Asia and Northern Africa (SWANA)

Selected Publications

Awad, A. M., & Sting, A. (2023). The IMF’s SDR Bonanza – What good did the free liquidity do Jordan? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung MENA, Economic Policies for Social Justice. http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/tunesien/20229.pdf

Awad, A. M., Sting, A., Abbas, M., Kuehnen, V., Shanmugavelan, M., Kotkot, M., & Graham, M. (2023). Fairwork Jordan Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in the Platform Economy. Oxford, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany. https://fair.work/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2023/09/Fairwork-Jordan-Ratings-2023-EN.pdf

Heine, K., & Sting, A. (2015). European Community Law. In J. Backhaus (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (pp. 1-9). Heidelberg: Springer. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_562-1

Sting, A. (2014). Company Tax Integration in the European Union During Economic Crisis - Why and How? Erasmus Law Review, 7(1), 39-49.  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2446834

Contact

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Anna Sting

Evaluator - Team Leader, Gender Equality Officer

Phone: +49 228-336907-319

E-mail: anna.sting@DEval.org

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