Nina Hall

Nina Hall is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her research examines transnational advocacy and international organizations with a focus on climate change, refugee rights, and migration. 
 
Nina holds a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a Master’s Degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was previously a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently a Faculty Affiliate at the SNF Agora Institute and the co-founder of an independent think tank, Te Kuaka (formerly New Zealand Alternative).
 
Nina Hall’s most recent book is Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organizational Change, (CUP, 2024), with Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni. A previous book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local (OUP, 2022) won the ISA’s Best Book Award in International Communication. It was shortlisted for BISA’s Susan Strange Best Book and received an Honorable Mention from APSA’s IT and Politics Section. Nina has published widely including in the International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Global Environmental Politics. Her first book was Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates? (Routledge, 2016). She has also written for: The Guardian, Die Zeit Online, Washington Post, Project Syndicate, and The Conversation.