Axel Harneit-Sievers Author

Dawid Danilo Bartelt studied History and Social Sciences in Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin (Germany) and Recife (Brazil). As a historian, he specialized on Brazilian and Latin American history, completing his Ph.D. in 2001. He worked as a journalist and as Senior press officer for NGOs, including the German Section of Amnesty International since 2002 until 2010 when he joined the Heinrich Böll Foundation to head the Foundation’s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2017, he is the head of the Mexico and Caribe office of Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico City. His publications include numerous articles and radio programmes and several books as author and editor.

Axel Harneit-Sievers, by professional background, is a historian specializing on Africa. He completed his Ph.D. at Hannover University in Germany in 1990 and worked for many years at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin and other research institutions and universities in Germany, with numerous publications on the history and politics of the continent. In 2002 he moved to Lagos, to take over the new Heinrich Böll Foundation’s country office in Nigeria, and later to Nairobi, Kenya, as director of the foundation’s East & Horn of Africa office. Since 2011, he is heading the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s India Office in New Delhi.