Altenburg, Tilman

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Photo: Dr. Tilman Altenburg is an economic geographer and project manager and research associate in the research department "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn.

Dr. Tilman Altenburg

Department
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems

Function
Senior Researcher

Specialization
Economic Geography

Work areas

  • Private sector development in developing countries
  • Enviromental economic policy

Regional expertise

  • Africa
  • East Asia
  • Latin America
  • South Asia

Vita

since 3/2025 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Senior Researcher, Research Department "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems"
1/2018-3/2025 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
(until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
Head of the Research Department "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems"
2006-12/2017 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Head of Department „Sustainable Economic and Social Development”
2000-2006 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Head of Department „Latin America”
 
1995-2000 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Researcher, Department „Latin America”
1994-1995 Scholarship of German Research Association / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Research on "World market integration and industrial competi-tiveness exemplified by small Latin American countries"
1992-1994 Research fellow of Philipps University Marburg
Research project "Trade liberalization and deregulation in small Third World countries"
1989-1991 Scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service – Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Research on "Possibilities and limits of regional development in peripheral areas of Costa Rica"
1986-1989 Research fellow of the Latin American Institute of the Free University Berlin
Research project "Agro-industrial development as key to overcome the crisis in Costa Rica?"
1991 PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis on: “Regional Economic Development. Case Studies from Peripheral Regions in Costa Rica”
1977-1986 University of Hamburg:
Studies in Economic Geography
Graduation in June 1986

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