Honorarprofessor Dr. Michael Daxner
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Honorarprofessor Dr. Michael Daxner
Temporary lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Chair of War Studies
consulting hours
by appointment
Vita
Education
- 1995: Honorary Doctorate State University of Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1990: Doctor of Humane Letters, Towson University, Md., USA
- 1972: PhD in Education (Thesis), English-American Studies and Philosophy
- 1966–1972: University of Vienna, University of Freiburg (Germany): Education, English-American Studies, History, Social Science, and Philosophy.
Professional Career
- Since 2018: Co-Speaker, Heinrich Boell Foundation Brandenburg
- Since 2018: Research Director: GlobalCitizenshipAlliance (GCA)
- 2017–2018: Project Director of Project “The Afghan Diaspora in Germany” for the German Foreign Office (AA)
- 2016–2017: Project Director of Project “Mapping and report: the Afghan Diaspora in Germany” (GIZ/PME)
- 2014–2016: Senior Advisor “Governance4Afghanistan” by GIZ through GOPA
- Since 2014: Partner (and CEO) of Daylight Consultants Ltd., Bremen
- Since 2011: Member, Board of the University of Marburg (Hochschulrat)
- 2010–2017: Project Director of Project “Security and Development - Afghanistan” within the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” (SFB 700), Free University Berlin.
- 2010–2018: Project Director “Conflict Awareness – Development Opportunities” VW Foundation research (Central Asia, Caucasus).
- 2009–2017: Senior Fellow, Berghof Research Center for Conflict Transformation, Berlin
- Since 2009: Member, Supervisory Board, Mitrovica International Business College, SPARK
- 2009: Fellow Remarque Institute New York University
- 2008: Research Professor SFB 700 Free University Berlin (Oct. 08-Feb. 09)
- 2007–2009: President, the Collegium/Council of the Magna Charta Observatory
- 2007–2008: Guest-Teaching at the Free University of Berlin
- 2005–2016: Expert missions to Afghanistan: Research on intervention cultures; co-operation with AUAF and UNAMA; migration project reviews
- 2006–2007: Guest-Teaching at the University of Vienna
- 2003–2005: Expert mission to Afghanistan (Higher Education legislation, Rectors Conference, on German assignment; senior advisor to the Minister of Higher Education)
- 2004–2006: Expert on SEE-Education, Counsellor to the Austrian Government (Science and Education), focus on SEE and the Austrian EU-Presidency 2006
- 2004–2011: Professor of Sociology: Resuming lecturing and research at the University of Oldenburg (Sociology and Jewish Studies)
- 2004–2007: Professor (Sociology) at the post-graduate Programme Master of International Studies: Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna
- 07/2003: Expert on Refugee Education in the Caucasus and Balkans, the Council of Europe
- 03/2003–07/2004: Engagement in Afghan Higher Education Reform (commissioned by German Rectors and German Academic Exchange on behalf of the German Foreign Office)
- 2002: Counsellor to the Austrian Government (Science & Education) on Soft Sector Policies in South East Europe
- 2002: Special Counsellor to the UNMIK Office, Belgrade (FRY)
- 2000–2002: UNMIK: Principal International Officer, Ministry of Education. Technology, Provisional Self-Government in Kosovo
- 2001: Member of the Collegium: Bologna Observatory (Magna Charta)
- 2000: Head of the UNMIK Department of Education and Science; International Administrator of the University of Pristina
- 1999–2001: Treasurer IAUP (International Association of University Presidents)
- 1998–2011: Professor of Sociology, University of Oldenburg
- 1986–1998: President of the Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg Germany
- 1995: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
- 1974–1986: Professor of Higher Education, University of Osnabrueck (Germany)
- 1970–1974: Higher Education Reform and International Desks in the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (Vienna)