Global Issues Senior Fellow
Root Causes of Displacement, Irregular Migration, European and Global Asylum and Refugee Policy, Labor Migration, Demography
ProjectsSince 2021 SWP Senior Fellow Global Issues
2015-2021 Head of SWP’s Global Issues Division
Since 2006 Research Fellow at SWP
2011-2014 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), migration adviser
1993-2006 German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Managing Editor, Yearbook on International Relations, Head International Migration Program
2019-2021 Federal Government Commission on the Root Causes of Displacement
2004 German Government’s Independent Council of Experts on Immigration and Integration (Zuwanderungsrat)
2001 German Federal Government’s Independent Commission on Immigration Reform (Süssmuth-Kommission)
Consultant i.a. with UNICEF, UNHCR, ICRC, IOM, ICMPD, EU Commission, World Bank, Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD), German Marshall Fund/Robert Bosch Foundation Migration Strategy Group; several governments
Board member of: Berlin-Institut für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung; Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer (FFVT); Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC); International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Kuratorium der Deutschen Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
How to make recruitment development-orientated, sustainable and fair
doi:10.18449/2023RP03
From Short-term Protection to Longer-term Perspectives
doi:10.18449/2022C26
Contribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 83–86
Are They Really Game Changers?
doi:10.18449/2021RP08
doi:10.18449/2020C46
Untapped Potential for Strengthening Health Systems
doi:10.18449/2020C44
Challenges and options for the ongoing project of German and European asylum and migration policy