{"id":8049,"date":"2025-11-01T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/?page_id=8049"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:03:07","slug":"ms-michaela-baur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/en\/ms-michaela-baur\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Michaela Baur"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"section bg-gradient dark has-parallax\" id=\"section_654398912\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  \" data-parallax-container=\".section\" data-parallax-background data-parallax=\"-5\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"section-bg-overlay absolute fill\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-bg -->\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1687766105\">\n<div class=\"col pb-0 small-12 large-12\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n<h3 class=\"ss-title uppercase\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\">Ms. Michaela Baur<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-content -->\n\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#section_654398912 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n#section_654398912 .section-bg-overlay {\n  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);\n}\n#section_654398912 .section-bg.bg-loaded {\n  background-image: 1093;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section section-bg-pattern\" id=\"section_338001318\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-bg -->\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-1806479088\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-1806479088 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-139239882\">\n<div class=\"col pb-0 medium-3 small-12 large-3 medium-col-first\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1211914720\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ms-baur.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#image_1211914720 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col pb-0 medium-9 small-12 large-9\"  ><div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n<h4 class=\"text-center ss-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"text-gradient\">BIOGRAPHY<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n\t<div id=\"gap-48374920\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-48374920 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">As of May 2024, Dr. Michaela Baur has been serving as the Country Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">From 2019 to 2023, she was Director General at GIZ Headquarters in Eschborn, Germany, responsible for the Department \u201cEurope, Mediterranean and Central Asia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Before joining GIZ, she worked in consulting, academia, and non-profit organizations in the fields of employment policy and economic transition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-30396189\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-30396189 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<h4 class=\"text-center ss-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"text-gradient\">TOPIC<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n\t<div id=\"gap-782889154\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#gap-782889154 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Conference session 2 Summary Report<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .section-content -->\n\n\t\t\n<style scope=\"scope\">\n\n#section_338001318 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8049\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vietnamurbansummit.vn\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}