Joachim Weber Editor & Author

Joachim Weber grew up in Hamburg and studied history, geography, public law and journalism at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany), Marburg (Germany) and Baylor-University (Texas, USA). He earned his M.A. with a study on German geopolitics in the world war period in Hamburg 1996.  As officer or reserves, he took part in IFOR and SFOR missions in Croatia and Bosnia in 1996/97. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 in the field of political and economic geography at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the Croatian transformation towards an independent state. He later taught political geography at several universities, among them Zagreb (Croatia), Bonn (Germany) and Akron (Ohio, USA). In 2002 he joined the German federal service and held positions at Federal Office for Disaster Protection (BBK), being co-founder of a M.Sc.-program on risk governance (KaVoMa) at University of Bonn. He has worked also in Ministry of Economic Development (BMZ) and in Ministry of Economics (BMWi) with responsibility for the German maritime defense industries. In 2017 he joined the Institute for Security Policy Kiel University (ISPK, Germany) as Senior Fellow. His ongoing research is on geopolitics in the Arctic.