Career stages:
1974-1980
Frankfurt University, Free University of Berlin: Studies in Sociology, Economics, Philosophy
1980-1982
Research-Assistant and Junior Lecturer Goethe University, Frankfurt
1983-1984
Researcher University of Osnabrück
1985-1987
Research Fellow at Philipps-University Marburg
1988-1994
Delegate for Employment-Policy, City of Offenbach
1995-2020
Head of Department for Employment, Statistics, Social Development, and Integration-Policies, City Council Offenbach am Main
1998 - ongoing
European Liaison Officer, City of Offenbach
2005-2011
Managing Director of MainArbeit GmbH
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).
2021 - ... Lecturer at Hochschule Fulda (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
2021 - .... Senior Advisor and Project-Manager for the City of Offenbach and MainArbeit-Jobcenter
2021 - .... Free-Lancing Consultant to governmental and non-governmental organisations in the field of social policies, employment,
and urban development
Other Activities:
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)
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)
Member of the Advisory Board of Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGBZ, Research Institute for Societal Cohesion), Frankfurt / Leipzig / Bremen
Member of the Advisory Board for inclusive urban development of the federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction
Member of the Board of "Freunde des Ensemble Modern" (Friends of Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based, internationally renowned ensemble of modern an avantgarde music)