Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

Education

• Ethnologist, lic.phil.
• CAS Organisational Development, Trigon
• Various continuing education courses: Leadership, spatial planning, university didactics, project and programme management in development cooperation

Career milestones

• Since 2006: Research associate at the Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change and Urban Development
• 1996-2006: Managing Director of IAMANEH Switzerland, International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health and Programme Director Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti and Migration Switzerland
• 1991-1995: Programme Manager Southeast Asia, Deputy Head of Asia Department
• 1984-1988: Assistant at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel and Swiss Institute of Ethnology, Basel

Main focus

• Neighbourhood and urban development
• Social space analysis
• Social inequality and space
• Lifeworld orientation and social work
• International cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Transdisciplinary research and cooperation