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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Harare / Zimbabwe

Urban Water & Sanitation

Pakistan

I run a team that supports and advices the Pakistan Ministry of State and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) with the management of the ongoing refugee situation in Pakistan, i.e. the presence of around 1.7 Mio. officially registered afghan refugees. Development of Training, Advice to the Ministry and its senior management and mentoring are main responsibilities..

Ethiopia

I served as civilian adviser to the peace support operations department of the African union commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The role was to strengthen the police and civilian component of the African Standby Force (ASF).The main ongoing mission at that time was the AMISOM Mission in Mogadishu/Somalia.

Bremen And Indonesia

Decentralisation of Port Mangement procedures in Indonesia. My main task was to oversee the implementation of trainings by subcontractors of my employer. As this was not overly exciting I quit this job.

Various

Freelance Trainer and Lecturer working for international organisations, humanitarian NGO's and Governmental Bodies incl Army and University

International Training Centre, Neuhausen

Training's for both national and international audiences on disaster management, humanitarian coordination, crisis mangement & civil-military coordination in crisis areas.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Support to the UN Peacekeeping Mission 'UNAMSIL'. As Teamleader I was in charge a team of 15 technical experts. This was a German in-kind contribution to the Peacekeeping Mission. Our mandate was to technically support the engineering department of the UN Mission and implement quick impact projects on request. The latter aspect involved the.

Hamburg Area, Germany

At that time I was keen on completing a PhD thesis on arms control issues. Actually the PhD plan did not work out for me, but this job got me interested in humanitarian issues. I did a lot of research on small and light weapons regimes, Vienna document etc which somehow lured my into crisis management, civil-military coordination and humanitarian.

Bremen Area, Germany

This was my first full time job after having completed my Master's Degree in the UK. SMC is what nowadays is referred to as "Headhunter". My job was to identify suitable candidates for vacancies that our customers had - preferably from our customers competitors in the market. I didn't like this job and moved on.

Brussels Area, Belgium

I got the opportunity to do an internship in NATO HQ. I spend time in the External Relations Section as well as in a conventional arms control unit which was called the "Verification Implementation and Coordination Section".

Master Of Arts (M.A.), European Studies And Politics

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government