I provide policy advice based on rigorous empirical research and participate in a variety of public speaking events. I also regularly teach and supervise students, offering courses based on empirical development research and my own practical experience.
Selected Events
- Moderatation of Launch Event Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2024 ‘Decent Work in Global Supply Chains’
- Interview for Deutsche Welle on Africa’s increasing connectivity and remaining digital divide
- Speaker at SPD event on “EU-AfriTech – Innovation und entrepreneurship on and with the African continent”, September 2023
- Moderation at the Ansprenger Symposium 2023: Afrikawissenschaft trifft Praxis of session on “Reforming the International Financial Architecture, Making Development Finance Sustainable – A German-African Perspective“, September 2023
- Speaker at GIGA policy event on “Platforms and Online Workers in India and Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Decent Work”, April 2023
- Meetings with Member of the German Bundestag as part of Leibniz im Bundestag.
- Knut Geschau & Till Mansmann of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on “The Rise of Technology Start-ups in Africa: Real Development Potential for the Continent or Unrealistic Hype?”, May 2023
- Alois Gerig of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on “German direct investment in Africa: opening up a future market, better development aid or even harmful?”, May 2021
- Gabriele Hiller-Ohm of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) on “Structural change in Africa”, June 2019
- Speaker at the Responsible Innovation Summit 2022 at the University of Göttingen in the session “Doing Business in Africa – Spotlighting Opportunies in the World’s next Big Market”, June 2022
- Lecturer at the seminar in “Controversies in Development in Development Economics” togeter with Professor Jann Lay at the University of Göttingen, 2018 and 2021
- Lecturer at the seminar in “What is the Role of the Unofficial Economy in Economic Development?” at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 2019