Eckart Wörtz

Eckart Wörtz (* 1969 in Waiblingen ) is a German historian .

Life

He studied political science, Islamic studies and economic political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1990–1995); DAAD scholarship holder at the Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas and the University of Damascus (1993–1994); Studied at the Free University of Berlin (1995–1996); Doctorate in Erlangen - Nuremberg , DFG scholarship holder (1999). From 2000 to 2006 he worked for banks in Frankfurt am Main , Mainz and Dubai in equity and bond trading. From 2006 to 2010 he was Director of Economic Studies at the Gulf Research Center (GRC). From 2009 to 2012 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University . From 2016 to 2018 he was Scientific Advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po. In 2014 he was KSP Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs. From 2012 to 2019 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (teaching positions at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals , the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Policy Center of the New South in Rabat). Since 2019 he has been Professor of Contemporary History and Politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg and Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies.

Fonts (selection)

• The crisis of the labor society as a crisis of trade unions. The independent trade union movement in Egypt . Erlangen-Nuremberg 1999, OCLC 924231561 .
• Oil for food. The global food crisis and the Middle East . Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-872939-6 .
• as editor with Martin Keulertz: The water-energy-food nexus in the Middle East and North Africa . Milton Park 2016, ISBN 1-138-67422-2 .
• as editor: Reconfiguration of the global South. Africa, Latin America in the Asian century . London 2017, ISBN 978-1-85743-863-5 .

Web links

• giga-hamburg.de
• geschichte.uni-hamburg.de