Who am I?

Career stages:

2024 - 2025   Project-Leader "Make it Work. Quality-Processes within the Triangle of Active Labour Market Policy" (Consortium of Goethe-University/IWAK, Frankfurt, Hochschule Fulda and GEWAK)

2023 - ....      Chair of Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur (GEWAK, Society for Economy, Labour and Culture), Frankfurt

2021 - ....      Free-Lancing Consultant to governmental and non-governmental organisations in the field of social policies, employment,
                      and urban development, member of various boards and expert-groups

2021 - ....      Senior Advisor and Project-Manager for the City of Offenbach and MainArbeit-Jobcenter

2021 - ...       Lecturer at Hochschule Fulda (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

2012 - 2020
Managing Director of MainArbeit. Kommunales Jobcenter Offenbach, a social and employment service organisation, subsidiary of the municipality of Offenbach am Main (follow-up organisation of MainArbeit GmbH).

2005 - 2011
Managing Director of MainArbeit GmbH

1998 - 2020
European Liaison Officer, City of Offenbach

1995 - 2020
Head of Department for Employment, Statistics, Social Development, and Integration-Policies, City Council Offenbach am Main

1988 - 1994
Delegate for Employment-Policy, City of Offenbach

1985 - 1987
Research Fellow at Philipps-University Marburg

1983 - 1984
Researcher University of Osnabrück

1980 - 1982
Research-Assistant and Junior Lecturer Goethe University, Frankfurt

1974 - 1980
Frankfurt University, Free University of Berlin: Studies in Sociology, Economics, Philosophy

Other Activities:

2024 - ....    : Associate, Governance Intenational, Birmingham, UK

2007 - 2020: Chair of Bundesnetzwerk Jobcenter, a nation-wide network of Job-Center-Directors in Germany (covering 350 Job-Centers serving appr. 6 million clients under the job-seekers assistance scheme SGB II) 

2002 - 2023: Member of the Committee "Social Policy, Social Protection, Social Assistance“ within the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e. V., Berlin)

2021 - ....    : Member of the Advisory Board of Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ, Research Institute for Societal Cohesion), Frankfurt / Leipzig / Bremen 

2022 - ....    : Member of the Advisory Board for inclusive Urban development of the federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction

2023 - ...     : Member of the Board of "Freunde des Ensemble Modern" (Friends of Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based, internationally renowned ensemble of modern an avantgarde music)