Klaus-Gerd Giesen

Biography

Klaus-Gerd Giesen, born in Germany, is currently professor of political science at the Université Clermont Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has successively been assistant and instructor at the University of Geneva, “privat-docent” at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), adjunct professor and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), as well as professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he was for some time the director of the Institute of Political Science.
                                
In addition, he taught several years as visiting professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium. Shorter visiting professor appointments occured at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes on Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, at the Université de Champagne-Ardenne (France), and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence (France). He has also been visiting researcher at the philosophy department of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) and at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute Technology in Pasadena (USA). In addition, he taught for three years at the University of Lyon (France).
                                
He is the founder and editor of the online journal "Academic Foresights". His academic prizes: Prix Lemonon of the Institut de France (1994); Prix Schappler of the Société Académique de Genève (1992).

Education

Doctoral degree, Université de Genève, Switzerland

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Political science; international relations; philosophy; ethics;

Websites

• Academic Foresights

• Distinguos

• Homepage

Books