Messner, Dirk

Responsibilities in education and training

Teaching for the University of Duisburg-Essen – Social Sciences:

• Global Governance and Development
• Climate Change as a Driver of Global Change
• Dynamiken und Transformationen in der Weltwirtschaft
• Entwicklungstheorien auf Makro-, Meso- und Mikro-Ebene
• Einführung in die Entwicklungstheorien
• Von der unilateralen Weltordnung zum turbulenten Multilateralismus? Global Governance im Wandel
• Entwicklungsländer in der Weltwirtschaft: Gewinner und Verlierer der Globalisierung
• Zukunftsfragen der Entwicklungspolitik

Teaching activities (inter alia) for:

• Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
• Gerhard-Mercator-University of Duisburg
• Free University of Berlin
• Universidad Nacional der Mexico
• Universidad del Pacifico, Escuela de Postgrado, Lima
• Comisíon Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), Santiago de Chile
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico
• Universidad Nacional de Trujillo / Peru
• Universidad Autónoma de Tegucigalpa / Honduras
   

Research and teaching activities

Development economist and political scientist with research and teaching activities in different Latin American and Asian Countries. Areas of specialisation include:

• globalisation and global governance,
• global environmental change and development,
• development policy,
• low carbon strategies/ international competitiveness/ systemic competitiveness,
• state and development/ governance theories/ network theories
   

Expertise work for

• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) / Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• Comisíon Económica para América Latina (CEPAL)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) / German Research Foundation
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
• Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FNSNF)
• Institutional Review Panel of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASAA)
• Co-Chair of the T20 process during the German G20 presidency
• Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Project, Lund University
• VolkswagenStiftung
   

Consulting

Assignments for bi- and multilateral agencies and academic institutes:

• German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
• German Development Agencies (GIZ, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, etc.)
• German Foreign Ministry
• European Union
• Comisíon Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) (Chile, Argentina, México)
• Inter-American Development Bank
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna
• World Bank
• Ministry of Industry / Peru
• Ministério de Economia de Chile,
• Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Buenos Aires
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico
• Korean Development Institute
• Universidad Autónoma de México
   

Member of

• Vice Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat globale Umweltveränderungen, WBGU) to the German Federal Government;
• Co-Director Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research;
• Co-chair of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030;
• the International Advisory Group of the International Climate Initiative (IKI);
• the Scientific Advisory Board on EU Development policy (EU Commission; Commissioner Andris Piebalgs) (2012-2015);
• the World Bank's ‘Knowledge Advisory Commission’ (2012-2015)
• the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development;
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;
• Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Germany
• the International Academic Advisory Council of Conservation International, Washington;
• Chair of the international advisory council of the research programme "Causes of and solutions to social conflicts in contexts of weak public institutions or state fragility" (Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung / SNF);
• the Scientific Advisory Council of the "Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung";
• Scientific Advisory Board of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities;
• the German Commission for UNESCO;
• Steering Commitee "Green Growth Strategies - Initiative" (Global Green Growth Institute / GGGI, Seoul)
• Chair of the scientific advisory council of the Center for international Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus-Liebig-Universität Göttingen;
• the international review panel of the "Development Progress Research Programme" (Overseas Development Institute / Gates Foundation) (2012-2015);
• Chair of the scientific advisory board of the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) Berlin,
• scientific advisory board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation;
• Member of the steering comittee Progress NRW of the Government of North Rhine -Westphalia
• the Global Agenda Councils, World Economic Forum;
• the scientific advisory board of the "Austrian Panel on Climate Change";
• the executive board of the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen;
• the International Academic Council of the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Foundation;
• Advisory Board Member of the Dialogforum Freihandel;
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Political Science & Diplomacy;
• Associate Editor of the Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies;
• the scientific advisory board of the research programme "Sustainable Germany 2030-2050" (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Security);
• the scientific advisory board of the Ökosoziales Forum Deutschland;
• the scientific advisory board of the research programme "Sustainable Mega-Cities" (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Hyderabad, Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research);
• the advisory board of the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México;
• the scientific advisory council of Misereor;
• the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development;
• the scientific advisory council of "Friedenswarte – Journal of International Peace and Organization";
• Editorial Board of Journal "Global Perspectives"
• Advisory Board of the"Global Perspectives Initiative"

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