Person

… CHRONOLOGICAL

→ born: on 08.08.1968 in Stuttgart

→ grew up: in Berlin, Frank­furt & Cologne

→ School educa­tion (1974–1987): in Pulheim

→ Appren­ti­ce­ship as whole­sale and foreign trade merchant (1987–1989): in Cologne

→ Univer­sity studies in psycho­logy and ethno­logy (1989–1997): at the univer­si­ties of Cologne & Kathmandu

→ PhD (2007): at the Faculty of Behavioural and Empirical Social Sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls Univer­sity of Heidelberg

→ Occupa­tion (1997–2001): adult educa­tion and organi­sa­tional develo­p­ment in Rhine­land and Neckar

→ Develo­p­ment worker (2002–2005): teacher training and project manage­ment in East Timor

→ Adviser & Resear­cher (2006–2010): develo­p­ment coope­ra­tion, research & educa­tion in several ASEAN count­ries and France

→ Civil affairs officer in the United Nations Peace­kee­ping Mission in Haiti (2011)

→ Freelance inter­na­tional consul­tant and evaluator (2012–2015): in Asia, Africa and Europe

→ Profes­sor­ship for Inter­cul­tural and Social Compe­ten­cies (since 2016): HVF Ludwigsburg

Guiding subjects in life: Culture & develo­p­ment,  cross-cultural psycho­logy, folk, change manage­ment, sustaina­bi­lity (SDGs), inter­na­tional capacity develo­p­ment, action research, ”crossing borders”.

… ETHNO-LOGICAL

→ Study of social anthro­po­logy (ethno­logy) at the Univer­sity of Cologne

→ Research, studies and working stays in Australia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozam­bique, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others

→ Lecturer at the univer­si­ties of Heidel­berg, Münster & Passau

→ Disser­ta­tion  on psycho­so­cial recon­s­truc­tion in East Timor; post-doctoral studies at EHESS (Paris)

→ Visiting scholar of the Research school for Asian and Pacific studies at the Austra­lian National Univer­sity (ANU)

→ OSCE election observer in Albania, Armenia and Macedonia; United Nations Civil Affairs Officer in Haiti

→ Develo­p­ment of a univer­sity insti­tute for the documen­ta­tion of indige­nous knowledge in West Papua

→ Modera­tion of high level consul­ting processes in South East Asia

→ Inter­cul­tural perspec­tive change training for adminis­tra­tions and refugees

→ board member of the Bonn Insti­tute for Migra­tion Research and Inter­cul­tural Learning (BIM eV)

→ Design and imple­men­ta­tion of third-party funded projects (VW Founda­tion, DAAD, GFD, BIM, Humus, GIZ, BWS) for inter­na­tional summer schools, colla­bo­ra­tive research and congress organisation

Main areas of work: Cultural change, indige­nous knowlege, social inclu­sion, crisis inter­ven­tion, diver­sity manage­ment, instru­ments of develo­p­ment coope­ra­tion, conflict trans­for­ma­tion, impact monito­ring,  migra­tion gover­nance, forced migra­tion & integration.