About the Speaker

Professor Dr Heribert Dieter is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at Zeppelin University, Lake Constance (since 2013) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Potsdam (since 2017).

He studied Political Science and Economics at the Free University of Berlin. After his position as a Senior Fellow at the University of Duisburg researching global economy and regional integration, he joined the Central European University, Budapest as a visiting Professor in 2004. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a Coordinator, a Member and Principle Writer of the “Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System” and a Member and Coordinator of the “Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform” at the University of Warwick. During that time he also was a visiting Researcher and Professor at the University of Sydney and submitted his habilitation in political science. Besides his current positions, he has been a Professor and the Chair of International Relations at Ruhr University Bochum and Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra; Murdoch University, Perth.

His current research focused on the future of globalization, the consequences of the rise of China for the world, bilateralism and plurilateralism in trade governance and Germany’s position in the 21st century’s global economy.