]Dr. Melanie Müller is Deputy Head of the Research Division Africa and Middle East at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – SWP). Her research focuses on political and social dynamics in South Africa and the broader Southern African region, as well as on the geopolitics of global supply chains. She has published widely on governance and socio-economic developments in South Africa and the SADC region, resource governance, sustainability in mineral supply chains, and relations between the European Union and Africa.
