Prof.Dr.EberhardSandschneider

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider held a chair in Chinese politics and international relations at Freie Universität Berlin until October 2020. He currently serves as a partner of the Berlin based consulting company Berlin Global Advisors.

He graduated from the Saar University in 1981 in English language and literature, classical philology, and political science and wrote his doctoral dissertation on “Military and Politics in the People’s Republic of China 1969-1986”. In 1993, he was promoted to the position of full professor.

Between 1995 and 1998, he was a professor of international relations at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. After moving to Freie Universität Berlin in October 1998, he served as managing director of the Freie Universität’s Otto Suhr Institute from October 1999 to March 2001 and as dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences from 2001 to 2003.

Between 2003 and 2016, he was Otto Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Since 2014, he has been one of the two Deans of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, Zeit Foundation, Hamburg. In 2020, he joined Berlin Global Advisors (BGA), a global risk consulting company, as a Partner.

Professor Sandschneider is a frequent commentator on German TV and Radio and writes op-eds in German and international newspapers. He is also the author of several books and publications, which can be found here.