After successful defence of her PhD Thesis on Tuesday, 6th February 2024, Fiza Lee Malhotra has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.). 

Her thesis with the title “A Practical approach to Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Heintze and Prof. Dr. Pierre Thielbörger. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.