Dirk Sauerland, MHE

• born 1964 in Recklinghausen
• Married, two daughters

Appointments and education

since 08/2008
University Professor of Economics Chair of Institutional Economics and Health Policy, Witten/Herdecke University (UW/H)

04/2003 - 07/2008
Professor of Economics (C4) Chair of Institutional Economics and Health Policy, Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr (WHL)

03/2002 - 03/2003
University lecturer in Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)

01/1997 - 02/2002
Research Assistant, Chair of Economics, in particular Money and Currency, WWU Venia legendi for Economics, December 2001

06/1992 - 12/1996
Research Assistant, Chair of Economics, in particular Money and Currency, WWU (Prof. Dr Manfred Borchert) Doctoral studies (Dr rer. pol.), May 1996

10/1987 - 05/1992
Studies of Economics, WWU Diploma in Economics, May 1992

02/1987 - 09/1987
Employee at the training company

08/1984 - 01/1987
Apprenticeship as bank clerk, Volksbank e.G. Oer-Erkenschwick Final examination at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Münster, January 1987

07/1983 - 09/1984
Basic military service

07/1974 - 06/1983
Hittorf-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen Higher education entrance qualification, June 1983

 

Stays abroad

09 - 10/2014
Theodor Heuss Visiting Professorship in Mexico City (ITAM & UNAM)

08 - 11/1999
Visiting Fellow RAND Health, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA

05/1992
Information Scholarship for Israel, Israel Foundation Recklinghausen

• Health policy in general, quality in the health care system,
• social market economy, institutions in markets,
• institutions in the political sector, higher education policy, Bologna reforms

Other activities/tasks

• since 01/2017
  Director of the Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWA)
• since 11/2015
  Member of the Social Science Working Group of the Kommende Dortmund, advisory body to the Archbishop of Paderborn
• since 11/2015
  Scientific advisory board of the Catholic Social Science Centre
• since 08/2015
  Director of the Dr Hartmut Krafft Centre for Business and Health
• since 09/2012
  Teaching appointment for "International Finance and Markets", HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich
• since 08/2011
  Member of the Supervisory Board, Evangelisches Klinikum Niederrhein gGmbH
• since 10/2004
  Faculty Member, Centre MBA / Executive & Professional Programs, Danube University Krems, Austria
• 10/2001 - 09/2016
  Teaching appointment for the subject "Internationalisation", Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
• 08/2008 - 07/2010
  Visiting professor at the WHL

Functions in the academic self-administration

• 12/2008 - 11/2013
  Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University
• 01/2009 - 11/2013
  Member of the Senate of the UW/H
• 03/2005 - 07/2008
  Rector of WHL; Member of the Executive Board, AKAD Private Universities
• 04/2004 - 02/2005
  Vice-Rector for Research, WHL
• 03/2005 - 07/2008
  Member of the University Council, WHL
• 09/2003 - 07/2008
  Member of the Senate, WHL Lahr University of Applied Sciences

Memberships

• Association for Social Policy, Economic Policy Committee
• Walter Eucken Institute e.V.
• American Economic Association
• International Health Economics Association (IHEA)
• German Society for Health Care Economics
• RC Witten-Hohenstein

Prizes/Awards

01/1995
Walter Eucken Prize 1994 (second prize) for the publication "Der Weg zu Marktwirtschaft und Demokratie" with Martin Leschke