Since 2014
Professor in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. He was appointed within the framework of the key profile area “Socio-economic, Cultural, and Political Transformations in the Global South” at the University of Cologne, supported by the German Excellence Initiative

2006 - 2014
Professor in Economic Geography at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography, University of Hannover

2002 - 2006
Professor at the Geography Institute at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel

2001
Habilitation: Firm’s innovation behaviour and spatial proximity – The importance of cooperation networks in the Metropolitan Innovationssystems of Barcelona, Stockholm and Vienna, University of Hanover (in German)

1995
PhD: Transformation in Vietnam: Industrial change and regional consequences, University of Hanover (in German)

1991
Diploma thesis: Regional Impact of the World Exhibition 1992 in Sevilla, University of Hannover (in German)

Description:
Growth corridors are one again gaining attention as possible avenues of future development in sub-Saharan Africa. Multi-stakeholder initiatives integrate rural areas into global value chains in order to achieve socio-economic development. Critics argue, however, that growth corridors intensify social conflicts, external dependencies, land grabs, and the maldistribution of wealth.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2018 - 2021