Participants in order of appearance
Benedikt Minzl,
born 1965 in Saarbrücken, Germany, studied Law at the University
of Würzburg, Bonn and Frankfurt. From 1991-1994 he took his final examination as
junior barrister. He worked as a consultant for law, taxes and accounting from 1994-
1996 and from 1997-1999 as Special Risk Manager/Claims Manager for Gerling
Speziale Kreditversicherung AG. Since 1999 he works for Atradius at first as Senior
Manager Special Risk and Claims in Cologne, Milan, Rome and Warsaw and since
2005 as Project Manager South America.
Stormy Mildner,
former Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign
Relations (Berlin), is currently lecturer in the Department of Economics of the John F.
Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin. She has earned a Master degree in
International Political Economy at the London School of Economics (2000), was an
international Fox Fellow at Yale University 2002/2003 and is presently finishing her
PhD in international economics on official export credit insurance and the Export
Import Bank of the US. Her main research areas are international trade relations
(particularly the transatlantic relationship), trade and development, international
political economy and international economic organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank),
on which she has published several articles.
Heiko Wacker,
born in Maceío/Brazil, earned his degree in Latin American Studies
in 1997. From 1998-1999 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Fundação Getúlio
Vargas in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil and at the University of Illinois/USA within the scope
of his doctorate in economics. From 2000-2002 he was a Research Associate at the
Department of Political Economy at the University of Cologne and since 2002 he works
in the department for International Trade and Commodity Finance at the WestLB
AG/Düsseldorf. 2003 he earned his doctorate in economics on the Brazilian monetary
policy, for which he received the Erhardt Imelmann Award. Since 2003 he is teaching at
the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of
Cologne. (“Economic Development and Economic Policy in Brazil”) and since 2004 he
is a lecturer at the Escola de Administração Fazendária (ESAF), Brazilian Ministry of
Finance/Brasilia.
Silvia Marengo
started her career 1988 at the central bank of Argentina and after that
she worked at the University of Hamburg at the Institute for Economic Research. She
also worked some years for the UBS and the Credit Suisse Group in the department for
Investment Research. She earned a MA at the Di Tella Institute and at the Kiel Institute
for World Economics and her doctorate at the University of the Federal Armed Forces
in Hamburg. 2001 Silvia Marengo started at the Clariden Bank as Analyst and Portfolio
Manager.
Martina Fuchs,
born 1962 in Hamburg, Germany, studied at the University of Trier
and Göttingen from 1982-1988. She earned her doctorate at the Institute for Economic
and Social Geography at the University of Frankfurt/Main in 1991 and her State
Doctorate in Düsseldorf in 1999. 1999/2000 she was Assistant Professor at the Institute
for Geography at the University of Duisburg and from 2002-2004 she worked as a
Professor for Culture Geography. Since 2004 she is Professor at the Institute for
Economic and Social Geography at the University of Cologne.
