Wolf Grabendorff
Wolf Grabendorff has been a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador in Quito 2013.-2018.Born in 1940 in Germany, he studied History, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations in Frankfurt, Grinnell and Berlin. He received the degree of Diplom-Politologe in 1965 from the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1999, the Johannes Gutenberg Universität of Mainz awarded him the title of Doctor honoris causa.Between 1966 and 1970, he was a researcher in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New York. Returning to Germany in 1970, he became Research Associate for Latin American Affairs at the government think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). This assignment was interrupted by three years spent as the Latin America Correspondent for the German T.V. network ARD based in Buenos Aires and afterwards by one year as Visiting Fellow at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.In 1985, he left the SWP, as a Senior Staff member. He became the Founding Director of the Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA), an international bi-regional organization, funded by the European Union and based in Madrid. Under his leadership until 2000, IRELA became the leading think tank on European-Latin American relations. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as Professorial Lecturer in Latin American Studies at The Johns Hopkins University (Bologna Center)
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