Henning Melber

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Henning Melber (PhD) is also an associate of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala/Sweden; senior research fellow with the Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study, University of London; Professor Extraordinary at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein; and a director emeritus/senior advisor of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala/Sweden. He was the Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professor for sociology and political sciences at the University of Cape Town in October/November 2017 and the president of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes from 2017 to 2023.

Experience

  • –present
    Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
  • –present
    Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria
  • –present
    Director emeritus/Senior Advisor, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala
  • –present
    Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Commonwealth Studies/Centre for Advanced Study, University of London
  • –present
    Senior Advisor, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala
  • 2000–2006
    Research Director, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala
  • 1992–2000
    Director, Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU), Windhoek

Education

  • 1993 
    University of Bremen, Habilitation in Development Studies (Entwicklungssoziologie)
  • 1980 
    University of Bremen, PhD in Political Sciences
  • 1977 
    Freie Universität Berlin, MA in Political Sciences

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Role:
    Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation

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