SENIOR RESEARCHER

Brief Biography

A political theorist by background, Tove H. Malloy specializes in the legal and political aspects of national and ethnic minority rights in international law and international relations, especially in the European context. Her areas of expertise cover the major international organizations as well as the European Union.

Dr. Malloy has extensive experience from the Danish Foreign Service where she has served in numerous positions, including in Eastern Europe during the Cold War as well as head office assignments. She has represented the Danish Government in international fora on post-conflict resolution for Rwanda and Bosnia, transition and development for Albania as well as on indigenous affairs issues. In this capacity and as an independent scholar she has held expert advisory and delegate positions on issues related to minority rights.

Her research has been funded by the European Commission, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Danish Government. She has experience in project management from both government and academia. Her writings focus on the national minority rights discourse in Europe and the regional aspects of national minority rights as well as public policy on minority rights and integration. She is the author of the monograph, National Minority Rights in Europe (OUP, 2005) as well as book chapters, journal articles and working papers. See reviews.

Dr. Malloy has taught at the EU's Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, Italy where she was a member of the academic staff, at the Master in European Integration and Regionalization in Bolzano as well as minority border region programmes. In spring 2006, she was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

She is currently a Senior Researcher at the European Academy in Bolzano, Italy where she is in charge of the Framework Programme 6 project on Human and Minority Rights in the Life-cycle of Ethnic Conflicts (MIRICO). Previously she was a Senior Research Associate and Head of the EU Programme at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg, Germany where she was the Scientific Director of the European Commission funded evaluation project on the Aspect of Culture in the Social Inclusion of Ethnic Minorities in the Open Method of Co-ordination. The final report submitted to the European Commission is available here. 

Dr. Malloy holds a doctorate in Government from the University of Essex and an MA in Humanities from Southern Denmark (formerly Odense University).