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Professor Dr. Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Ph.D.

Brief biographical note:

Born 1943, married, 2 children

1963 – 1970: Studies of economics, political science and sociology at University of Munich, Free University Berlin, Sciences Po Paris, University of California Berkeley

Degrees: Dipl. oec. publ. (Munich 1968); Dr. oec. publ. (Munich 1971); Dr. phil. habil. (Augsburg 1978); Ph.D. (UC Berkeley 1979)

Languages: German, English, French (all fluent), Spanish, Kiswahili (working knowledge)

1985 - 2009 Professor of Political Science at Philipps University Marburg; major fields of teaching and research include political culture, empirical democratic theory, development studies, comparative politics, comparative methodology.

1989-1992 and 2003: Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy

1993-1994 and 2001-2002: Director of the Institute of Political Science,

Previous appointments and visiting professor at the universities of Munich, Nairobi, Aachen, Augsburg, Eichstätt, Prague, Stellenbosch, Lille, Berkeley, Vienna, Sciences-Po Paris,

Instructor at the ECPR Summer Schools at the Universities of Essex and Ljubljana

Instructor at the IPSA Summer School on Concepts and Methods, Sao Paulo

Member of the Executive Committee of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), 1980-1986; 2003-2009

Co-chair, Research Committee on “Political Culture” of DVPW, 1982 - 1988

Co-chair, Research Committee on “Democratization in Comparative Perspective” of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) 1988- 2000

Co-organizer of regional conferences at Abuja/Nigeria, Chandigarh/India, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil and Tallin/Estonia

Organizer and chair of numerous national and international panels, workshops and symposia

Executive Committee (IPSA), 2003-2009, 2006-2009 Vice-President, chair of the Committee on Research and Training (CRT); Summer School Coordinator 2009-2012

Executive Committee “European Consortium for Political Research” (ECPR), 2000-2006, Chair 2003-2006;

Local Organizer of the 2nd ECPR General Conference, Marburg 2003

Programme co-chair IPSA conference on “International Political Science: New Theoretical and Regional Perspectives”, Montreal 2008

Member of the Prize Committee of the Johan-Skytte Prize 2009 -2012

Appointed as European Research Council (ERC) referee 2009 – 2013

Member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal for Comparative Sociology, International Political Science Review, International Political Science Abstracts, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, European Political Science Review, Taiwan Journal of Democracy

Co-editor of the “IPSA Encyclopaedia of Political Science”, 8 vol. SAGE (forthcoming)

Co-editor of the ECPR book series on Comparative Politics for Oxford University Press

Major research projects funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Volkswagen-Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, Daimler Chrysler Foundation

Referee for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Volkswagen Foundation, Swedish Rijksbank, Swiss National Fund, Austrian Science Foundation, International Science Foundation; National Research Foundation/South Africa.