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:
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)