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Education
 
Doctor rer. oec. (2007)
Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Germany
Thesis: Corruption and Regulatory Capture in Public Service Sector Reforms
Directors: Prof. Dr. Georg Meran (TU Berlin), and Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff (Univ. of Passau)


Master en Economía y Regulación de los Servicios Públicos (2004)
Universidad de Barcelona, Spain (website)
Economics, politics and legal aspects of regulation, Econometric techniques, Experiences in Spain and Latin America, Sectors: Water, Energy, and Telecommunication
Specialisation: Water



Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt, 2002)
Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Germany
Specialisations in: Economics of Regulation and Competition, Environmental Economics, Health







Work Experience

Since January 2011: Professor of Economics
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Current research intertests: 
Corruption in the education sector, corruption & informal sector, Regulatory Transparency, corruption & decentralisation
Teaching:
Principles of Economics, Microeconomics, Development Economics, New Instituional Economics (in Spanish)

Since 2004: Independent Consultant, Lecturer and Trainer
Past employers: 
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), UK Department for International Development (DFID), Anti-Corruption Training & Consulting (ACTC), Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá), Studeo Verlag & Coaching, InWent, FH Osnabrück, Global Integrity, Universidad de Barcelona

September 2007 – July  2010: Economist, Project Staff
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz) 
Name of the project
Assistance to developing countries in implementing the UN Convention against Corruption (website).
Tasks 
  • Assistance to developing countries in implementing the UN Convention against Corruption
  • Cooperation with UNODC, U4 Anti-corruption Resource Centre, OECD-DAC Govnet Anti-Corruption Task Team, and other international initiatives
  • Risk analysis and anti-corruption in education, infrastructure, health, emergency and transitional aid, private sector, post-war and fragile states. 
  • Development of anti-corruption trainings and modules for trainings
  • Development of an anti-corruption workshop for mainstreaming anti-corruption into projects.
  • Presentations at conferences, organisation of workshops, seminars etc.

September 2006 – November 2006: Research Assistant
University of Passau

Tasks
Editing of a research project proposal (economic theory of corruption, new institutional economics), Moderation ‘Economics of Corruption’ Lecture


May 2001 – September 2002: Research Assistant

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin
Tasks
Research and publications on conflicts between WTO rules and national environmental regulations. Area: Trade and environment, WTO law