Michael Bohnet

Michael Bohnet (born June 10, 1937 in Berlin ) is an adjunct retired professor for economics and Ministerialdirektor i. R. ( Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , BMZ). He is the BMZ's representative for the new EU countries.

Life

Bohnet passed his Abitur in 1956 at the Kepler Gymnasium in Freudenstadt (Black Forest). From 1956 to 1959 he studied technical economics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (technical main examination in mechanical engineering 1959), then economics at the Free University of Berlin (diploma in economics 1962). From 1962 to 1966 Bohnet was a research assistant at the chair for economic theory at Paulsen at the Free University of Berlin. He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1966 on the subject of "External Economies with special consideration of their importance for developing countries". rer. pole. This was followed by a position as a scientific consultant at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.

Michael Bohnet has been married since 1970 and has two sons.

1973 Bohnet joined the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) and worked in the planning group there. In 1974 he returned to Munich and took over the management of the Africa study center and the developing countries department of the Ifo Institute . In 1978, Bohnet again moved to the BMZ, where he took over the management of the planning and research department. From 1982 he headed the UN department of the BMZ, from 1985 to 1990 the evaluation and inspection department of the BMZ. In 1990 Bohnet completed his habilitation in economics at the University of Duisburg . His habilitation thesis dealt with the topic of “Debt restructuring of public and private claims on developing countries”. In 1990 he was appointed sub-department head in the BMZ. He took over the management of the sub-department “Sectoral and supra-sectoral development policy”. In 1994 Bohnet was appointed adjunct professor for economics at the University of Duisburg, where he taught until 2004.

From 1992 to 1998, Bohnet was the central negotiator at the eight major world conferences: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio (1992), World Population Conference in Cairo (1994), Small Island States in Barbados (1994), UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995 ), World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen (1995), World Settlement Summit in Istanbul (1996), World Food Summit in Rome (1996) and Special General Assembly on Drugs in New York (1998).

In 1998 Bohnet took over the management of the department “Multilateral Cooperation, Development Policy of the European Union, Sectoral and Inter-Sectoral Development Policy”, in 1999 the management of the department “Bilateral Development Cooperation, Integration of All Development Policy Measures” and at the same time the role of Deputy State Secretary. In addition, from the end of 2001 to the end of 2002, he was BMZ's special representative for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Bohnet has been the BMZ's representative for the new EU countries since 2003.

Publications

Books:

• The concepts of external economies with special consideration of their importance for developing countries. Berlin 1968
• The north-south problem, conflicts between industrialized and developing countries. Munich 1971, 5 editions
• Applied Research and its Impact on Economic Development: the East African Case. Munich 1972
• Development research and development policy, a balance sheet of the Africa research program of the Ifo Institute. Part 1 and Part 2, Munich 1973
• Distribution of income in developing countries. Munich 1976
• Learning from mistakes, 9 years of success control of project reality, results and conclusions. Bonn 1986
• Debt rescheduling of public and private debts to developing countries. Hamburg 1990
• 40 years of bridges between development research and development policy, economic, ecological, political, social and cultural references , Scientia Bonnensis, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-940766-43-4
• History of German development policy: strategies, interior views, contemporary witnesses, challenges , Konstanz / Munich, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft 2015 (utb4320), ISBN 978-3-8252-4320-3 , 2nd revised and updated edition 2019.

Memberships

• Scientific Advisory Board of the BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)
• Board of the European Association of Development Research Institutes (EADI)
• Scientific advisory board of the advanced training center for economic statisticians from developing countries in Munich.
• German Institute for African Studies, Hamburg
• German Orient Institute, Hamburg
• German Overseas Institute, Hamburg
• Society for the promotion of research and training in the field of international technical and economic cooperation at the TH Aachen
• Commission for International Population Issues of the German Society for the United Nations , Bonn
• Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems , Freiburg
• Committee of the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) "Church funds for development services", Hanover
• Environment Council of the People's Republic of China (China Council for International Corporation on Environment and Development).
• Head of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg
• Advisory Board of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn
• Award committee of the Development Cooperation Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• Board of Trustees of the Dreyerstiftung, Munich
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Honors

• 1996 Times , list of 100 most important personalities in the field of "Environment and Development"
• 2002 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class