Lecturers


MARK BRAMWELL (Intercultural Communication)

Graduate of Political Science, University of Nottingham; certified English language teacher for the German public service, Federal Language Institute (Bundessprachenamt); in-company English language teacher; Head of Foreign Languages at the Hochschule Neubrandenburg (2003-05). Since 2005 Mark Bramwell is lecturer in English and Intercultural Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt; Honorary commitment as youth counsellor and project organizer for NGOs.


ANNE JURKAT (Money and Macroeconomics)

Anne Jurkat has studied economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt, where she received her degree in 2004. Since then she has worked as a research assistant at the chair of Economic Development and Integration, Goethe University, Frankfurt and pursued her doctoral studies. Her research interests are growth theory with particular emphasis on CES production functions and monetary growth theory. She has held lectures in growth theory at the Master level and taught a class on European Monetary Integration at the International Summer University in Shanghai in 2009.


ALEXANDER KARPF (European Central Banking)

Alexander Karpf has worked over 10 years in the banking industry as a legal advisor. He obtained his Juris Doctor at the University of Vienna and his master's degree in European Laws at the King's College in London, UK. He started his professional career in the international department of Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). Subsequently he was employed at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and (OECD) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)in Paris, France. He is currently working at the European Central bank as Senior Legal Counsel and gives legal advice inter alia on payment systems operated by the Eurosystem Central Banks and monetary policy issues.


JÖRG KUPIETZ (Financing of an Entity - From Term Sheet to Documentation)

Prof. Dr. Jörg Kupjetz is a professor of the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main with specialisation in civil law, company law and finance law. He also runs the LLM-programme "Negotiating and Designing Contracts". In additiona, he is a partner of the international law form Taylor Wessing in Frankfurt. There his clients are German and foreign banks, financial institutions and investors. He advises on a broad range of financing transactions, especially relating to acquisition finance, project finance, property finance and structured finance. Jörg Kupjetz studied law at the universities of Osnabrück, Heidelberg and Los Angeles and has been promoted to Dr. jur. at the university of Heidelberg. After his Second Legal State Exam he worked as a lawyer in the Frankfurt office of two leading international law firms, Jörg Kupjetz has also been seconded to an international investment bank in London. He has received a diploma in bank business administration and has been qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.


ALEXANDER LORZ (European Law)

Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz is Professor at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf where he holds the chair of European Law and Public International Law. He earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and his PhD (Dr. jur.) from Philipps University, Marburg. From 2007 to 2009 he was Vice Minister (Deputy Secretary) for Higher Education, Research and The Arts (State of Hesse, Germany). Alexander Lorz is member of the Board of the German-American Lawyers' Association and Regional Director in Düsseldorf. Also, he is member of the Board of the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy.


EVA SALZER (Intercultural Communication)

Eva holds a Master's Degree in Strategic Communication and Planning from University of Arts in Berlin and completed her Ph.D. in Economics at University of Witten/Herdecke. She also studied at Rice University in Houston and attended the High Potential Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. Eva is owner of EVA SALZER Strategy & Communications, a Frankfurt based management consulting firm specialized in the field of corporate communications. Eva is a frequent lecturer at various universities; since 2009 she is a faculty member of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.


BRIGITTE GEISSEL (European Economic and Social Policy)

Professor Dr. Brigitte Geissel, professor of political science and political sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., currently Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA, has held research and teaching positions at various universities and institutes including the SocialScience Research Center Berlin, Center of Excellence on Democracy at Åbo Akademi (Finland), the Universities of Muenster, Berlin, and Illinois (USA) as well as the Vietnamese German University, Saigon (Vietnam). Her research interests include democratic innovations in Europe, new forms of governance, the European Union, and political actors (new social movements, associations, civil society, parties, political elites, citizens). She has written recent articles in Comparative Sociology, West European Politics, and the European Journal of Political Research (among others).


LARS WELLEJUS (Corporate Finance)

After his doctorate dissertation on financial information economics Prof. Dr. Lars Wellejus worked 2000 – 2004 for PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance as a consultant, advising leading German corporations on shareholder value management. 2005 he hired with KfW IPEX-Bank, an investment bank specialized on export and project finance, to build a team of cash-flow modellers. 2008 he accepted the offer of a professorship for Business Administration, esp. Decision Systems at the FH Frankfurt – University of Applied Science.


CHRISTIAN SCHLAG (Fundamentals of Futures and Options Marktes)

Christian Schlag studied Business Administration at the University of Augsburg and Economics at Wayne State University in Detroit. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe and joined Goethe University in 1998, and he is also a visiting faculty member at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. His main research areas are derivative securities, with a focus on their pricing and their use in hedging strategies, and equilibrium asset pricing models.


LARS PILZ (History of European Integration)

Lars Pilz studied political science, economics and philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt, Paris I and Amsterdam. Afterwards he became coordinator of the Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Policy and wrote his Ph.D. about topics related to the European labour markets. Today he is Ass. Dean at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Besides that he is a lecture in economics, economic policy and European integration at universities in Frankfurt and Mannheim.