Dr. Bernhard Seliger

Dr. Bernhard J. Seliger is currently resident representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea, based in Seoul, consulting NGOs, academic and public institutions in questions of unification. Also, he manages the capacity building projects of Hanns Seidel Foundation in North Korea, among them the EU-DPRK trade capacity project, one of the two first Asia Invest programmes in North Korea. In 2006 the honorary citizenship of Seoul was conferred by the current president of South Korea, then mayor Lee Myung-Bak, on Bernhard Seliger.

Since 1999, Dr. Seliger is senior lecturer (Privatdozent Dr.habil.) at the Institute for Research Into Culture and Economic Systems, University of Witten/ Herdecke (Germany). From 2004-2006 Dr. Seliger was guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration of Seoul National University and at the Graduate School of International Area Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Before, Dr. Seliger was from 1998 to 2002 Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Area Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From 1995 to 1998 Dr. Seliger worked as Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Economic Policy, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel (Germany), where he received a doctorate (Dr.sc.pol.) in 1998. Dr. Seliger holds a degree (Maitrise en sciences économiques) from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France). Among the research interests of Dr. Seliger are institutional economics, economics of transformation and integration and the economic development of Korea in Northeast Asia.