Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann

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

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

Latin America

Cuba

Accountability and Participation