| since 9/2011 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Head of Department, until the end of 2013 in charge of the international research project "Aid effectiveness: State of the international debate and implementation, controversies, learning processes, perspectives" (affiliated to the Directors of the DIE) |
| 3/2006 – 9/2011 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Head of Department "Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation" |
| 1993 – 2006 | German Development Institute
Head of Department I: Basic issues in development cooperation; Regional focus: Middle East and North Africa |
| 1977 – 1993 | German Development Institute
Researcher in the European Department and the Latin American Department |
| 1988 | Free University of Berlin
Doctorate in political science; doctoral thesis: "Economic and Industrial Development Options for Small Third-World Countries. A Contribution to the Debate on Development Theory and a Case Study of the Dominican Republic" |
| 1976 - 1977 | German Development Institute
Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation |
| 1970 – 1975 | Free University of Berlin
University of Bonn
Student of political science, Roman languages, philosophy and education; university diploma in political science (equivalent to an MA degree) |