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Dr. Dirk Messner is the director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, a professor of political science at Duisburg-Essen University and a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
He is a political scientist and development economist who graduated from the Free University of Berlin in 1988.
His areas of specialization include: globalization and global governance; global environmental change and its impact on international development; the world economy and competitiveness; development in Latin America and Asia; governance and network theories; development policy; as well as China and India as drivers of global change.