Prof. Dr. Holger H. Mey
President & CEO
Institute for Strategic Analyses (ISA)
Member of the International Advisory Board of Worldsecuritynetwork.com
Professor Dr. phil. Holger H. Mey, born in 1958 in Flensburg, Germany, works as a self-employed security policy analyst and consultant in Bonn, Germany.
Among many other functions, Prof. Mey serves as
- President & CEO of the Institute for Strategic Analyses (ISA) in Bonn, Germany,
- Vice President of EuroDefense (Deutschland),
- Board Member of the Politico-Military Society (pmg), Bonn/Berlin,
- Deputy Chairman of the Council for Security Policy and Arms Control –
German Strategy Forum,
- Honorary Professor, University of Cologne,
- Lecturer for International Relations at the University of Bonn,
- Adjunct Professor, Southwest Missouri State University,
- Member of the Editorial Board, Comparative Strategy,
- Editor of the ISA book series Strategic Analyses.
Prof. Mey is a member of many national and international foreign and security policy coun-cils and associations.
He publishes frequently in many major security policy journals as well as in newspapers and is a TV and radio commentator. Prof. Mey is the author of the book "Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik 2030" [German Security Policy in the 21st Century], which is going to appear in English early 2004 (Berghahn Books).| Background / Professional Experience: | | 1980-1986 | Studies of Political Science (International Relations), Ethnology/Anthropology and Latin American History at the University of Bonn, Germany |
| 1984 | Research Assistant at the Defense and Strategic Studies Program (DSSP),
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA,
Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International and Strategic Affairs (CISA), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 1986-1990 | Research Associate at the Government-sponsored research institute for international security policy, Foundation for Science and Politics (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Ebenhausen near Munich, Germany (now Berlin) |
| 1986-1989 | Executive Secretary of the European Strategy Group (ESG) |
| 1992 | Ph.D., Free University of Berlin, Germany |
| 1990-1992 | Security Policy Analyst, Policy Planning Staff, Ministry of Defense, Bonn |
| 1992-1994 | Security Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Defense Committee
of the German Parliament, Bonn, Germany |
| Since 1992 | See above |
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