Cand.scient.pol. 1994. 1995-1999: Ph.D. 2001. Research Assistant.

Mette Kjær's major areas of professional interest are Governance and state capacity in Africa and the third world. Selected publications include The politics of civil service reform: A comparative analysis of Uganda and Tanzania in the 1990s, PhD-thesis, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, June 2001, and “Fundamental change or no change? The process of constitutionalizing Uganda”, Democratization, Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 94-113, and “Good Governance: How does it relate to Human Rights?” (with Klaus Kinnerup) in Gudmundur Alfredsson, Hans Otto Sano, et al. (eds), Good Governance and Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.