Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Prof. Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge is Director of the German Development Institute and Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn since March 2020. The German development and sociologist of knowledge originally studied Southeast Asian Studies and Sociology at the Universities of Bonn and Singapore, then completed her doctorate in the sociology of knowledge in Berlin and her habilitation in development research at the University of Bonn. Before moving to the DIE and the University of Bonn in 2020, she was Professor of Social Sciences in the Marine Tropics at the University of Bremen and Head of the Department of Social Sciences and the Sociology of Development and Knowledge Research Group at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen. From 2006 to 2015 she worked as a Senior Researcher for the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn and was Professor and Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Change from 2014 to 2015.

Her research interests include (a) the role of different types of knowledge in and for change processes, and (b) natural resource governance issues in agriculture and fisheries. Regional focus is on Southeast and Central Asia, East and West Africa. Ms Hornidge is active as an advisor through several scientific and policy advisory boards at national, EU and UN level: the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), co-chair (with Gesine Schwan) of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany, and chair of the German Commission for UNESCO's Committee on Science.