Since 1985 I have been working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH) at HQ and in Africa, Latin-America and Asia. My thematic focus has always been Public Administration, Regional Development and Planning, Decentralization, Good Governance (Administrative Reform, Anticorruption, Gender). I have been leading large project and sector teams and was Regional (Centralamerica) and Sector (Governance) Director at GIZ HQ. I am now retired from GIZ . I do continue to… Show more Since 1985 I have been working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH) at HQ and in Africa, Latin-America and Asia. My thematic focus has always been Public Administration, Regional Development and Planning, Decentralization, Good Governance (Administrative Reform, Anticorruption, Gender). I have been leading large project and sector teams and was Regional (Centralamerica) and Sector (Governance) Director at GIZ HQ. I am now retired from GIZ . I do continue to work as a short term consultant for GIZ but I also started a new career to learn boat building for classic sailing boats (autodidact). Actually I am in the process to reconstruct a 60 years old classic wooden Nordic Folkeboat ( www.sailfolke.wordpress.com ). Show less

On a private journey to Peru in 1975 I learned that a road would soon be finished to connect the Peruvian eastern amazon region San Martin with the Panamericana, thus allowing for the first time the exchange of goods by road transport and at a larger scale. Having focussed scientifically and during the teaching at TU-Berlin on regional development I decided to apply privately for a research project to investigate the effects of the road connection on the economic and social development in the… Show more On a private journey to Peru in 1975 I learned that a road would soon be finished to connect the Peruvian eastern amazon region San Martin with the Panamericana, thus allowing for the first time the exchange of goods by road transport and at a larger scale. Having focussed scientifically and during the teaching at TU-Berlin on regional development I decided to apply privately for a research project to investigate the effects of the road connection on the economic and social development in the DepartamentoSan Martin, Peru. For 12 month I lived in Tarapoto. I was lucky to get access to the loading lists of urban transport and also conducted interviews with regional authorities, private enterprises and a significant number of small farmers in the region. Show less

Assistant Professor teaching on Urban and Regional Development focussing on Locational Theorie and Practice of private enterprise; Project studies and Research on efficiency and results of national, regional and local promotion programs to influence private enterprises location decisions in the german northers region (Emden - Cuxhaven)