Arthur Zimmermann (social scientist)

Arthur Zimmermann

Arthur Zimmermann (* 1948 ) is a Swiss social and cultural scientist, author and consultant.

Life

Zimmermann studied history, literature and social sciences at the University of Zurich and the Free University of Berlin from 1969 to 1974 . After completing his master's degree and diploma for higher education, he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich until 1981. In addition, he taught at various Swiss grammar schools. In 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the work of Hans Magnus Enzensberger . From 1981 to 1984 he was department head of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia and as such was responsible for projects of international cultural exchange and domestic cultural promotion (among other things as initiator of the Kulturmobil project ).

From 1982 to 1984 Zimmermann worked with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation on a research project on socio-cultural issues of the inter-war period, which involved longer research stays at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York . In 1984 he founded the multidisciplinary consulting company KEK-CDC Consultants AG based in Zurich . The focus of the advice at home and abroad was on strategy and organizational advice, planning and evaluation of development programs. He also worked as an editor for the Swiss broadcaster SRF for the Passage broadcasting vessel. The main topics were Latin America, cultural diversity, institutional development and change in Eastern Europe.

From 1998 Zimmermann took over the management of the German bilateral development programs in Ecuador on behalf of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). His main tasks were the formulation of cooperation and sector strategies for sustainable development, especially through the involvement of civil society organizations, and the transparency of public spending. In this context, Zimmermann also worked as a lecturer at Latin American universities (including at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Ecuador and Chile).

Since 2003 Arthur Zimmermann has been director of the consulting firm odcp consult gmbh, based in Zurich, which deals with international cooperation issues. The consulting focus is on systemic organizational consulting and cooperation management, political economy and development policy, institutional development and conflict transformation.

From 2003 to 2017 Zimmermann also worked as a lecturer at the ETH Zurich with a focus on development policy and institution development, cooperation management and conflict transformation. Since his retirement in September 2017, Zimmermann has been working as a freelance publicist and lives in Colombia and Italy.

Publications (selection)

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The poems and their literary critical reception . (= Treatises on art, music and literary studies, vol. 227), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1977, ISBN 978-3-416-01304-8
• Max Frisch . Edition L'Age d'homme, Lausanne 1981, ISBN 978-3-7296-0193-2
• Robert Walser . Zytglogge Verlag, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-7296-0193-8
• Process monitoring. Methods and instruments . GIZ / RMSH, Bonn 1995 ( PDF )
• Sustainability of development projects. The Sustainability Tree . SDC, Bern 1991
• Co-author Rolf Sülzer: Organize and understand organizations. Ways of international cooperation . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 978-3-322-83269-6
• Monitoring - Keeping in Touch with Reality (also in German, Spanish and French) SDC / SDC, Bern 1998
• Proyectos integrales. One strategy for the cambio en las instituciones de investigación y transferencia de tecnología . Abya Yala, Quito 2000, ISBN 9978-41-439-8
• Gestión del cambio organizacional. Caminos y herramientas . Ed. Abya Yala, Quito 2001, ISBN 9978-04-404-3
• Experiencias en la operación de Fondos competitivos . Edición Abya Yala y GIZ, Quito 2002
• Gestión de Redes de Cooperación. Conceptos y herramientas para la gestión horizontal . Ed. Abya Yala, Quito 2004, ISBN 9978-22-406-8 ( PDF ).
• Multi-stakeholder management. Participation. Tools for Stakeholder Analysis and Intercultural Cooperation . (also in German and Spanish) GIZ, Eschborn 2006
• Consulting pool from odcp consult: El cambio nunca viene desde fuera. Desarrollo de Capacidades de organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Ed. Abya Yala, Quito 2006/2007, ISBN 978-9978-22-705-3
• CSPM. Conflict Sensitive Program Management. Conceptual Framework and Tools . SDC / SDC, Berne 2007 ( online )
• Odcp consult's advisory pool: Gestión efectiva para transformar conflictos y construir la paz. Manual de conceptos y herramientas . GIZ, 2010
• Shaping cooperation successfully. Concepts and instruments for consultants and decision-makers . Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7910-2974-0
• Co-author Rolf Sülzer: Farewell to the planning mania. New and old organizational questions of international cooperation . Springer, Heidelberg and Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00780-5
• Cooperation management in practice (co-author). Shaping social changes with Capacity WORKS . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06275-0
• Redes y sistemas de cooperación. Conceptos y herramientas . Edición Abya-Yala, Quito 2016, ISBN 978-9942-09-334-9 .

Web links

• CV , odcp consult gmbh

Individual evidence

1. ^ Culture in motion: The Pro Helvetia Foundation's Kulturmobil project. Experience, methods, conditions, principles . Chronos, 2001
2. ↑ team of odcp colsult GmbH, accessed on December 5, 2018
3. ↑ Arthur Zimmermann: Learning units in the spring semester 2016 . Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2019.