Dr. Malte Behrendt is a psychologist and researcher specialising in transcultural mental health, forced migration, and psychosocial support in humanitarian and post-migration contexts. With over ten years of international experience across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and West Africa, he combines rigorous academic expertise with hands-on work in counselling, research, and programme support for vulnerable and marginalised populations. His work is driven by a commitment to human rights, evidence-based practice, and participatory approaches to mental health care.

Malte currently works as a consultant for Global in Mind, working on major international mental health initiatives such as Mental Health for Ukraine (MH4U) and EU-PROMENS, where he supports conceptual development, quality assurance, and technical advisory in multinational teams. Parallel to this role, he serves as a psychologist and researcher at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), where he provides counselling and psychotherapy for traumatised refugees and contributes to research, project development, and acquisition.

His earlier professional experience spans a wide spectrum of psychosocial and clinical contexts: from mental health research at Ghent University—where he completed his PhD on the wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors—to practical roles in outpatient trauma care, emergency shelters for young refugees, music-therapy-based psychosocial programmes, and community-based mental health centres in Colombia, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Senegal. He has collaborated with NGOs, ministries, international organisations, and academic institutions, gaining in-depth experience in qualitative and mixed-methods research, longitudinal studies, and the analysis of social support structures in displacement.

Malte holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from Ghent University and an M.Sc. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from the Free University of Brussels. His academic work has been published in leading journals such as Transcultural Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, and the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. He is fluent in German, English, Spanish, French, and Dutch.

Across his career, Malte has consistently focused on strengthening mental health support systems for people affected by war, displacement, and social exclusion. He is passionate about integrating research, practice, and policy to promote dignified, culturally sensitive, and accessible mental health care for all.