Academic and professional carrer
Year of birth 1964
Education
- Graduated Nurse (1984-1987)
- Studies in Sociology, Economics and Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (1989-1996), Masters level
- Postgraduate course at Center for Advanced Training on Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1997)
Phd Thesis about the "Cooperation in the practice of local non-profit-organisations. Case studies from the Bolivian Lowlands - between external support and local contexts" (2016)
Occupational History
- Work as graduate nurse in Auguste-Viktoria-Hospital, Berlin (1987-1989)
- Academic staff member in an organizational reform project: "Improving the system of steering and decision making", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1998 - 2000)
- Advisor in the German Development service: "Land rights for indigenous communities and organization support in Bolivia" (2000 - 2003)
- Academic staff member at Center for Advanced Training on Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2007 - 2009)
- Freelance advisor and consultant in international development cooperation for German GO and NGO (2003 - 2007, 2009 - 2015)
- Research fellow at SLE project "Ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive scenarios of rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa" (on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ)
