Dirk Sauerland, MHE

Univ-Prof Dr Dirk Sauerland is the Dean of the Faculty of Management, Economics, and Society, Chair of Institutional Economics and Health Policy, and programme director at the Faculty of Management, Economics, and Society.

Publications:

• 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