Frank Umbach

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Frank Umbach (born November 27, 1963 in Kassel ) is a German political scientist specializing in energy security and security policy . Since 2014 he has been Research Director at the European Center for Energy and Resource Security at King's College London .

Life

Umbach studied political science, Eastern European history and international law from 1985 to 1990 at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (MA 1990). From 1991 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne; his supervisor was Gerhard Wettig . In 1991 he conducted research at the Institute for Scientific Information in the Field of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University in Washington, DC, the Foreign Military Studies Office of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and of RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. With a short-term grant from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, he worked at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1992 . In 1992 he was also Research Assistant to the "Special Advisor for Central and East European Affairs" Christopher N. Donnelly in the office of the NATO Secretary General in Casteau / Mons, Belgium and from 1993 to 2003 a consultant there. In 1995/96 he was a Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. He was u. a. supported by NATO and the Japan Foundation .

In 1996 he was awarded a dissertation at the University of Bonn. a. was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, through the Warsaw Pact for Dr. phil. PhD. He counts Wolfgang Pfeiler , Hans-Adolf Jacobsen , Karl Kaiser and Alexander Fischer among his “doctoral supervisors” . From 1996 to 2007 he was program manager for international energy security and security policy in the Asia-Pacific region at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy in Bonn and Berlin. In 2008 he became Senior Associate for international energy security at the Center for European Security Strategies in Munich. From 2010 to 2014 he was Associate Director of the European Center for Energy and Resource Security at King's College London . Since then he has been Research Director.

From 2003 to 2007 he was Co-Chair of the European Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific . In 2005/06 he was a member of the BDI Presidential Group on International Raw Materials Issues. In 2007/08 he was the official energy security advisor to the social democratic Lithuanian government of Kirkila . In 2009/10 he was a member of an Expert Council on NATO-Russia Relations at the EastWest Institute in Brussels. In 2010 he became a member of the Ukraine 2020 Energy Security Task Force . From 2010 to 2014 he was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Energy and Climate Program of the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC). In 2011 he became a contract author for the Geopolitical Information Service and in 2012 he became a scientific advisor to Shale Gas Europe .

He is Visiting Professor at the European Interdisciplinary Studies Department of the College of Europe in Warsaw and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He also appears as a political and corporate advisor in numerous countries.

Fonts (selection)

He published several reports for the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies.

  • Conflict or Cooperation in Asia-Pacific ?. China's involvement in regional security structures and the effects on Europe (= publications of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . Series: International Politics and Economy . Vol. 68). Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56648-2 .
  • Global energy security. Strategic challenges for European and German foreign policy (= publications of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . Series: International Politics and Economics . Vol. 70). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56740-3 .
  • The red alliance. Development and disintegration of the Warsaw Pact 1955 to 1991 (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 10). Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-362-6 .

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