Participants in order of appearance
Rainer Schweickert
is Senior Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World
Economics. He studied at the University of Mannheim and received his PhD at the
University of Kiel. He is a member of the Kiel Institute for World Economics since
1988 and was Head of the research division “Stability and Structural Adjustment”. He
directs the Beyond Europe Project Area which analyzes the external implications of
European Integration. He has done extensive research on monetary and exchange rate
policies, on macroeconomic equilibrium and economic development and on regional
integration. His regional focus is on Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
Markus Diehl,
born 1963 in Germany studied Mathematics at the University of
Kaiserslautern, Economics at the University of Göttingen and from 1994-1996 postgraduated
studies in Commercial Law at the University of Hagen. From 1990-2001 he
worked at the Institute for World Economics, Kiel, as a Research Associate in the
Development Economics Department. He published on monetary and exchange rate
policy, foreign trade and outsourcing, system transformation and Vietnam. Since 2001
he is Senior Economist in the Economics Department of the WestLB AG, Düsseldorf,
where he is responsible for adjusting the bank’s country risk monitoring system to the
requirements of “Basle II” and carries out macroeconomic analyses and forecasts for
Japan, China and South Korea.
Makram El-Shagi,
born 1979 in Bochum, Germany, studied Economics at the
University of Trier where he earned his Master’s degree in 2001. He was a lecturer at
the University of Trier, Chair for Applied Computer Sciences from 2000-2001 and from
2001-2004 at the University of Mannheim, Chair for Economics, especially
International Economic Relations. 2003 he earned his doctorate in Economics at the
University of Mannheim where, since 2004, he is Assistant Professor. From 2004-2005
he was Professor of Economics at MUDEC (Miami University European Center
Dolibois). Presently Makram El-Shagi is working on his State Doctorate (Habilitation)
at the University of Mannheim.
Antje Meißner
was born and raised in Heidelberg, Germany. She studied Latin
American Studies at the University of Cologne, where she graduated in July 2005.
Having specialized in corruption in the course of her studies, she joined the German
chapter of Transparency International in 2002. Since 2003, she is the team leader of the
TI Germany working group on political education. She also spent seven months in São
Paulo, Brazil, working for the Brazilian chapter of TI, and wrote her master's thesis on
corruption-fighting policies in international organisations. Internships in the German
Federal Foreign Office and the German Development Cooperation in Accra, Ghana,
complemented her academic career. She now works for the Kreditanstalt für
Wiederaufbau (German Development Bank) in Frankfurt.
