Head of Political Education
Universities of Mainz and Frankfurt: Political sciences (focus on international politics), law, journalism and social sciences
Professional Experience
1986 - 1991: Research assistant at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, 1991 Deputy head of the research group Youth and Europe at the Institute for Political Science
1991 PhD about young people’s attitudes towards Europe
1991 - 1998: Head of the European Research Department at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Sankt Augustin
1998 - 2008: Head of the Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Berlin
2008 - today: Head of the Main Department Political Education of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Berlin
1992-2006: Lecturer at the universities of Mainz, Cologne, Bochum, Berlin
Board Memberships
Member of the scientific board of the Institute for European Politics
Member of the advisory board of the publication series "Non-formal Political Education" at Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach/Ts.
Member of the advisory board of Friends of Yad Vashem e.V. Berlin
Member of the scientific advisory board of the "European Youth Policy Unit (AeJP)" of the German Youth Institute Munich
Member of the board of "Against Forgetting - For Democracy e.V." Berlin