Dieter is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. His interests are hopelessly fragmented and largely irreconcilable, adding up to 20 years of research and policy work on governance, technology, corporate citizenship, urbanization, policy foresight/innovation for universities (e.g. LSE, Harvard, Oxford, U Cape Town)  think tanks (e.g. Carnegie Council),  IGOs, (UN, UNDP, European Commission) and INGOs (Transparency International, Open Government Partnership). He holds a PhD  in development studies from LSE and a MSc in Economics from U Regensburg.