Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann
Lead Research Fellow
Head GIGA Berlin Office Editor GIGA Focus Latin AmericaShort CV
Short CV
Since 05/2015: Head of the GIGA Berlin Office
2014: Appointed as Honorary Professor at Freie Universität Berlin
11/2011 - 10/2014: Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
2007/2008: Guest Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin, SFB 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"
2007: Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University
Since 2006: Deputy to the Director, Institute of Latin American Studies
Since 2003: Senior Researcher at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
2003: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude) at the Political Science department of the Freie Universität Berlin; Doctoral Thesis on "The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development"
1998 - 2003: Lecturer at the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin
1998: Research Scholarship by the Instituto Rio Branco (Brasilia)
1993 - 1998: Researcher at the Institute for Ibero-American Studies, Hamburg
Study of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin
Current Research
Current Research
Transnational Migration Politics and Diaspora Policies
Executive Board member of the research network desiguALdades.net
Cuba's Transformation: Crisis, Continuity and Change in Socialist Cuba
