AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Analytics, Strategy, Leadership and Change & Operations
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Business and Entrepreneurship; Climate, Export and Development Finance; Leadership and Management of Large Public Sector Programmes
CURRENT POSITIONS
Director of the Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI), and
Professor of International Business, Hochschule Offenburg (Germany)
Visiting Scholar, University of St.Gallen (HSG) (Switzerland)
Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University (UK)
Partner with actoRx (Germany)
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Visiting Scholar, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (UK)
External Examiner, Bayes Business School, City, University of London (UK)
Senior Honorary Fellow, Global Policy Institute, Durham University (UK)
Visiting Fellow, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University (UK)
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)
Ass. iur., 1st and 2nd Legal State Exam, University of Hannover and OLG Celle (Germany)
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