Herrmann P.

PhD in philosophy from Bremen, Germany. He completed studies in Sociology (Bielefeld, Germany), Economics (Hamburg, Germany), Political Science (Leipzig, Germany) and Social Policy and Philosophy (Bremen, Germany). He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Department of Social Sciences (Kuopio, Finland), Honorary Associate Professor at Corvinus University in Budapest, Faculty of Economics, Department of World Economy. He taught at several third level institutions across the EU; currently correspondent to the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law (Munich, Germany). He holds the position of a senior advisor to the European Foundation on Social Quality (The Hague, Netherlands), member of the Advisory Board of Eurispes (Institute of Political Studies, Economic and Social Studies, Rome), member of the Scientific Board and its Coordination Committee of ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizen's Action), Associate Member of the Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting, Lomonosow Moscow State University, Russia. He held the positions of a Visiting Professor at different universities within and outside the EU. He also was a Research Fellow at National Taiwan University, Taipei; the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia; Visiting Scholar at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey; Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany. He started his work in researching European social policy and, in particular, the role of NGOs. Over the last years his main interest shifted towards developing the Social Quality Approach further, looking, in particular, into the meaning of economic questions and questions of law. He linked this with questions on the development of state analysis and the question of social services. He has published widely on these topics.