2021 reviewer | trainer: country analysis Myanmar
2017-present: consultancy on Myanmar
2015-2016 visiting professor: Berlin School of Economics and Law, department of economics
2008-2015 lecturer at University of Duisburg-Essen, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Berlin School of Economics and Law
2008 Dr. phil., FU Berlin
2004-2007 dissertation at John-F.-Kennedy-Institut on U.S. strategies in the Asia Pacific after World War II with a focus on public diplomacy in Burma/Myanmar
1997-2000 USA / upstate New York
1991-2003 media work with Süddeutsche Zeitung: München / New York; SPIEGEL ONLINE; FAZ
1987 M.A., FU Berlin, history and Latin philology
1981-1987 university education at Berlin, Heidelberg, Padova