Married:
to Inge Sofie Sørensen, Head of section, Danish Energy Agency

Children: 3 - two boys, both born in 1989 and a girl born in 1995

Present Employment: Head of Department

Education:
M.A. (cand.scient.pol) in Political Science, University of Aarhus 1979
Doctor (dr.scient.pol) in Political Science, University of Aarhus 1988

Additional academic qualifications          

1. Evaluated qualified for a position as full professor (Institute of Political Science, University of Oslo) May 1995. Officially appointed 21st August '95.
2. The evaluation was confirmed on the 4th of January 1996 in connection with the appointment of the research director (forskningschef) at the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI).
3. Evaluated qualified for a position as full professor in international politics, Dep. of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, May 2000.

Employment

01.11.06ff:
Head of Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University.

01.04.03-30.10.06:
Head of the Department for ‘European Studies' at the Institute for international Studies.

01.01.99-31.03.03:
Research Director, Centre for Development Research, head of the research theme ‘Managing Development: People, States and International Organisations'.

01.01.98:
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen.

01.01.97-31.12.97:
Senior lecturer (forskningslektor), Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen
(with special responsibility to develop the priority research area of University of Copenhagen: North-South Relations)

15.04.94-31.12.96:
Research director, Centre for Development Research.
Head of the research area "Relations between developing and industrialized countries"

01.09.89-14.04.94:
Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Development Research

15.08.87-31.08.89:
Head of Section, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen

01.08.80-14-08-87:
Assistant professor and later professor in comparative politics, Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus.

01.09.79-31.07.80:
Instructor at both University of Aalborg and Department of History, University of Aarhus. Both places, the teaching was in social science theory and methods as well as introduction to development research

01.09.77-31.01.79:
Instructor at University of Aarhus, Department of History. The teaching was mainly general introductions to social science theory and methods, development theory as well as studies of specific devlopment problems.

Supplementary employment

01.02.06ff:
Part-time associate professor (ekstern lector), Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

01.09.96-31.01.06:
Part-time associate professor, (ekstern lektor) Centre for African Studies,  University of Copenhagen

01.09.87-31.08.96:
Part-time associate professor in political science, (ekstern lektor) Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

1988-2001:
Danida's training Centre, Hornbæk: teaching different topics related to international politics and secutiry

Since 1990:
The Defence Staff Academy, Copenhagen, teaching topics related to international politics and security

01.08.88-31.12.1998:
Foreign-policy commentator and feature-writer at the daily 'Information', Copenhagen

01.01.91-31.12.93:
Foreign affairs writer at the montly 'Hjemmeværnsbladet', Copenhagen

01.02.94-31.08.95:
Writer on foreign policy and development aid in the weekly 'Ingeniøren', Copenhagen

Since 01.08.95:
Commentator on aid and international politics at the daily 'Kristeligt Dagblad', Copenhagen

Since 01.01.98:
Columnist on development aid at the periodical 'Kontakt'

Honourary office

Since 1997:
External examiner in political science, the Universities in Aarhus & Copenhagen

Since 1994:
External examiner for the social scientific educations at the Universities in Roskilde and Aalborg. Also external examiner at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

01.01.1993-31.12.98 & 2000-2004:
Member of the Council for International Development Cooperation, Danida, Copenhagen (appointed by the Minister).

Since 1992:
External examiner in international relations, Defence Staff College, Copenhagen

1990-1997:
Member of the editorial staff of the periodical Kontakt, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (Association for International Co-operation), Copenhagen

1980-1987:
Originator of and member of the editorial staff at the social science journal GRUS

1983-1987 and from 1995 until now:
External examiner at the University of Odense

Studies and research at universities abroad

The American University in Cairo, Egypt: 1977 and 1983

University of Exeter, England: 1981

University of Durham, England: 1983

University of Colorado, Boulder, COlorado, USA: 1987

Participation in researchers' educations and training

a. Supervision of Ph.d's

1. Peter Triantafillou, "Governing Pests, Pesticides and Farmers in Malaysian Agriculture"

   March 1998, Roskilde University.

2. Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, "Security in the West African Sub-Region: An Analysis of ECOWASs policies in Liberia"

   September 1999, Political science, University of Copenhagen

3. Susanne Jakobsen,"International relations theory & the environment. A study of Brazilian and Indian policy-making on climate change"

   June 2000, Political Science University of Copenhagen.

4. Joakim K. Gundel,"Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Political Emergencies in Africa. An Analysis of the Somali and Liberian Cases"

   Expected submission: pending, University of Copenhagen.

5. Jess Pilegaard, "The Everything but Arms Agreement: An Example of Cross Policy Making within the European Union"

   February 2006, Political Science, University of Copenhagen

6. Julie Pruzan, "Democratization in Morocco: Contributions of the European Union?"

   Expected submission: Spring 2008

7. Cathrina Sørensen, "Euroscepticism and the development of the European Union".

   Expected submission: Spring 2007.

b. Officially appointed opponent to ph.d dissertations

1. "Foreign Aid and State Sovereignty: The Ethio-Swedish Development Co-operation" by T.Sendabo, University of Lund, Sweden, 1996.
   

2. "State-Making, Nation-Building and the Military; Iraq 1941-1958" by. K.Salih, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1997.

3. "Tropical Forests and the Politics of Environmental Reform: The Cases of Brazil and             Indonesia from 1988-1992/93" by. S.Kasa, University of Oslo, Norway, 1999.

Organisation of Ph.d Courses

1. Approaches to North-South Studies, January 6-9 1998, Magleaas.

2. Doing field research and presenting results, January 14-15 1999, Tune Landbocenter.

3. Presenting field work results and writing articles for academic journals in the field of development studies, March 9-10 2000, Tune Landbocenter.

4. Ph.d.course within the framework of the north-South initiativeof University of Copenhagen, November 23-24, 2000, Tune Landbocenter.  

5. Ph.d.course within the framework of the North-South Initiative University of Copenhagen,    Magleaas, May 2-3 2001.