Results-oriented and determined policy consultant and manager with 10+ years of professional experience in academia, politics, and association work. Strong background in analysis, conceptual design, communication, and stakeholder management. Strong project management skills and a comprehensive, strategic mindset.
Positions Held.
- 2023 - Present Manager Energy Policy @ FNB Gas e.V.
- 2022-2023 Policy Advisor @ Henning Rehbaum, Member of Parliament
- 2020 - 2022 Independent Consultant History & Strategy
- 2015 - 2020 Historian @ Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. (Mumbai, India), German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. (USA), German Historical Institute London (UK), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France), York University (Canada), New York University (Abu Dhabi)
Education & Certificates
- 2025 Transformational Certificate Executive Education @ Hertie School (Berlin), Bucerius Law School (Hamburg) & Intersectoral School of Governance Baden-Württemberg (Heilbronn)
- 2024 1x1 der Gaswirtschaft euroforum (Handelsblatt media group)
- 2019 Arts & Humanities Visiting Fellow @ New York University (Abu Dhabi)
- 2015 Dr. phil. in Modern History @ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 2007-8 Study year abroad @ Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 2009 M.A. South Asia Studies, Political Science, Literature @ Humboldt University / Free University Berlin
Extracurricular activities.
- Member of the Networks on „Energy“, „Sustainability“, „Security Policy“ and "Foreign Trade" @ alumni association of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation
Publications.
- "Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)", in: History of Science, 2023, 61, 1.
- "‘A New Passage to India?’: Westdeutsche Außenwirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Indien, ca. 1950–72", in: Christian Kleinschmidt / Dieter Ziegler, Dekolonisierungsgewinner. Deutsche Außenpolitik und Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018.
- "Revolution or evolution? The making of the automobile sector as a key industry in mid-twentieth century India", in: Arve Hansen / Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia: Wheels of change. Routledge, 2017, 72-89.
- "The Turn of the Gulf Tide: Empire, Nationalism, and South Asian Labor Migration to Iraq, c. 1900–1935", in: International Labor and Working-Class History, 2011, 79 (1), 7-27.
Media Appearances.
- "Winter of 2022 is a challenge for Germany because of gas shortage: Berlin India scholar - Energy crisis is an opportunity for innovation for new technology, says Henning Rehbaum", The Hindu, 25th September 2022.
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