BIOGRAPHY

As of May 2024, Dr. Michaela Baur has been serving as the Country Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Vietnam.

From 2019 to 2023, she was Director General at GIZ Headquarters in Eschborn, Germany, responsible for the Department “Europe, Mediterranean and Central Asia.”

Between 2015 and 2019, she served as GIZ Country Director in Jordan and Lebanon, and prior to that, she headed the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Labor Market Division in the Sector Department at GIZ Headquarters for seven years.

From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Baur worked as Program Director for several TVET and labor market projects in China. Her professional expertise covers labor market policy, employment, vocational education and training, gender equality, economic policy, private sector development, and regional structural policy.

Before joining GIZ, she worked in consulting, academia, and non-profit organizations in the fields of employment policy and economic transition.

Dr. Baur holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and studied political science and economics at the universities of Marburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

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