Associate Professor for Intercultural Relations, Bucharest State University, Bucharest
Editor-in-chief of Osteuropa-Wirtschaft (quarterly); (Co-)Editor of the Journal for Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (quarterly); Member of the Board of the `Southeast Europe Association´, Munich; Vice President of EALIZ (Europ. Academy for Life Research, Integration and Civil Society)
Teaching appointments: German Air Force Officers´ College (1973-74), Boston University, Econ. Dpt. (1976), Bucharest State University ( since 2005-), Portland State University (2009).
Publications: 9 books and some 245 articles on East- and Southeast-European economics and politics, transformation and European integration (EU-enlargement).
Research awards / stipends: AIESEC (Prague 1968), Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington DC 1985/86), Fulbright (Washington 1985), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Sendai/Tokyo 1994), DAAD (Bucharest, 2006), A. S. Onassis Foundation (Athens, 2007/2008)