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Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Ute Klammer

Born 1963 in Cologne, Germany, married

School education:

grammar school „Gymnasium Hürth-Bonnstraße“;
final examinations: summer 1982

Academic background:

• studies at the University of Cologne, Germany
• May 1990: final academic examination in philosophy, German language and literature and pedagogics
  (M.A. - equivalent); subject of the final thesis: The idea of political freedom in the works of Hannah Arendt
• June 1991: Diploma in economics
• From July 1991 on: Graduate student for economics (with emphasis on social policy) at the University of Frankfurt a.M., Germany; PhD in economics 1995
  Subject of the doctoral dissertation: Social protection for the elderly in Italy - with special emphasis on the protection of women and the problem of poverty (Published by Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997).
  The dissertation received the Matthöfer-award for economic research in 1997.

Work at university:

• Since July 1991: member of the “ASEG“- research project at the University of Frankfurt, headed by Prof. Dr. R. Hauser and Prof. Dr. D. Döring, dealing with social protection of the elderly in Europe.
• July 1994 - July 1995: member of a research group at the Universities of Frankfurt a.M. and Bremen, working on the current and future problems of financing social security in selected member states of the EU
• July 1995 - July 1996: member of a interdisciplinary research group at the “Center for European Social Policy“, University of Mannheim, Germany, working on the historical development of welfare states in Europe and their influence on income distribution.
• August 1996 - September 2004: senior researcher in the field of social policy at the WSI (Institute for Economic and Social Research). Numerous publications on the future of social security, social security and justice, European social policy, social protection for women, old age and health care systems, labour market policy etc.
• June - Aug. 2004: Research Fellow at the Hanse-Institute for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst
• Lecturer at the Universities of Essen, Frankfurt a.M. and Cologne, Germany (1997-2004).
• Oct. 2004 - Feb. 2007: professor for social policy at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Mönchengladbach
• Since March 2007: professor for political sciences, in particular social policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Academic interests:

international and comparative European welfare state research, in particular family policy, pension systems, labour market research, gender research

Political commissions:

• 2004 - 2005 member of a scientific commission working on flexibility and social cohesion on behalf of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
• Since May 2008: Member of the German “Council for Sustainable Development”
• Since June 2008: Member of the German expert commission on equality issues

Languages:

• fluent English, oral and written
• proficient French and Italian

Work and study experiences in foreign countries:

• June - September 1984: Teaching at a summer camp in Newton, New Jersey (USA)
• several longer stays in France, working for French organisations
• July - August 1991: summer university Urbino, Italy
• July - August 1993: summer school of the empirical databank
  “Luxembourg Income Studies“ (LIS), Luxembourg
• September 1994: participation in the summer workshop of the “European Economic Association“ (EEA) in Florence, Italy
• 1992, 1993 and 1994: several longer stays in Rome, Italy, for research
• Spring 1996: series of lectures at the University of Lyon, France, on developments and problems in the field of social policy in Germany and Europe.
• Spring 1999: participation in the U.S. international visitors' program
• Since 1996 participation in numerous international conferences in European countries, Asia, the US and South America.
• Sept. - Dec. 2003: Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium