Curriculum Vitae

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Analytics, Strategy, Leadership and Change & Operations

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International Business; Trade Policy and Export Strategies; Export, Development and Climate Finance

CURRENT POSITIONS

Honorary Research Associate, Oxford Smith School, University of Oxford
Professor of International Business and IfTI Director, Hochschule Offenburg
Honorary Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Partner, actoRx

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Visiting Professor, University of St.Gallen
Visiting Scholar, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University
External Examiner, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Senior Honorary Fellow, Global Policy Institute, Durham University

PREVIOUS POSITIONS OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA

Partner and Head of Economics & Policy, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Managing Director, German Export Credit and Investment Guarantee Agency
Vice President, Berne Union
Head of Guarantees and Export Finance, Airbus Group (ex EADS)
Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Junior Legal Counsel, Allianz Trade (ex Euler Hermes)
Several legal trainee positions, e.g., with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economy

EDUCATION

Master of Letters (MLitt), University of St Andrews (UK)
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Northumbria University (UK)
Master of Laws (LLM), Northumbria University (UK)
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Wales (UK)
Ass. iur., 1st and 2nd Legal State Exam, University of Hannover and OLG Celle (Germany)

My professional work has been featured, for instance, by CNBC, Deutsche Welle, Forbes, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Impulse.