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CV Erich Kofmel
Managing Director, SCIS
Chairman, SCIS Technology Ltd
Born: 1974, Switzerland
Degrees and qualifications:
(2008)
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Social and Political Thought,
currently studying part-time at the University of Sussex, England
(2008)
Postgraduate Certificate in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods,
exit award concurrent with DPhil
(2007)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Theology
2004
Master of Management in Public and Development Management
(Specialisation in Governance and Public Policy), with distinction
1993
Commercial Certificate of Ability
Experience in Higher Education:
University of Sussex/England, currently:
- Chairman, Postgraduate Association (PGA)
- Delegate Member, National Postgraduate Committee of the United Kingdom (NPC)
- Ordinary Executive Officer, Management Subcommittee, NPC, 2005-2006
- Member, Research Degrees Committee, School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
(SocCul)
- Member, Postgraduate Curriculum Committee, SocCul, 2005-2006
- Student representative, research students, Graduate Programme in Social and Political
Thought (SPT)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg/South Africa, 2003-2004:
- Member, Senate International Policy Committee
- Member, Faculty Board, Faculty: Commerce, Law, and Management
- Member, Executive Committee, Postgraduate Association (PGA)
- Class representative, full-time students, Graduate School of Public and Development
Management (P&DM)
University of Fribourg/Switzerland, 1996-1999:
- Member, Higher Education Political Commission, Federal Association of Swiss Students'
Unions (VSS/UNES)
- Member of Senate
- Member, Lectures' Evaluation Working Group of Rectorate
- Member, Strategic Planning 2000-2003 Working Group, Faculty of Theology
- Member, University Political Commission (UniPoKo), Students' Union (AGEF)
- Member and Head of different working groups of UniPoKo
Dissertations and research papers:
"Me Against Mediocrity: A Political Ontology in Plato, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rand", currently,
DPhil

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"Theology and Politics of Resistance: Radical Islam and Christian 'Political Theology'
Compared", MPhil
"Fighting Capitalism and Democracy", MM-PDM
"Religion in Thomas More's 'Utopia' – And the Influence Christianity Had on his Vision",
pre-diploma in Theology
Papers presented:
"The Politico-Theological Analysis of Radical Islam", Fourth Graduate Conference in
Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, 2006
"Creators and Secondhanders", Inaugural Symposium "The Individual and Society in the
21st Century" of the Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS), at the University
of Sussex, 2006
"Me Against Mediocrity: Initial Findings", "Constructing Identities" conference, Graduate
School in Humanities, Cardiff University, 2006
"Fight Against the System", Seventh Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory,
University of Essex, 2006
Conferences and seminars attended:
"Postgraduates Under Threat: Under-Represented, Under-Funded, Under-Valued",
annual conference of the National Postgraduate Committee of the UK, Aston University,
Birmingham, 2006
"Unequal Development: The Globalisation of Apartheid", Goldsmiths College, by
invitation, part of ESRC-funded seminar series "Rethinking Economies", 2006
Global Graduate Seminar on Globalization and the Information Society, web-based
multimedia seminar held weekly for twelve weeks simultaneously at universities in Africa,
Europe and the US, and participation in a global working group, 2004
Organisations worked for:
Media Institute of Southern Africa, South African chapter (MISA-SA), Johannesburg,
Project Manager
Print Media SA and Community Press Association, Johannesburg, Project Manager
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Dakar/Senegal, Head of Project Study
Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Dakar, German cultural centre, Researcher
United Theatre Creators of Switzerland (VTS), Bern, Association's Secretary
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern, Assistant of Head of Finance and
Accounts Department, Troubleshooter
Students' Union (AGEF) of the University of Fribourg, Project Manager
Youth Employment Summit, Follow-up Campaign 2002-2012, Newton, MA/USA, Project
Manager
Groupe And Ligeey, Dakar, Senegalese underground association of homosexuals,
international fundraising
Gemeinebüro Treuhand AG, Solothurn/Switzerland, trust company, Commercial
Manager

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Valora Management AG, Bern, construction department of a retail chain, Office Manager
Lorenz AG, Biberist/Switzerland, construction industry, Office Manager
Conti AG, Solothurn, construction industry, commercial apprenticeship, 1990-1993
Other:
Politics Editor, www.globalcritics.com, graduate students' online journal, 2005-2006
Author, "How to Start Up a Newspaper", manual targeted at new publishers in black
emerging markets in South Africa, e. g. townships, rural areas, 2003
Author, "Structure and Activities of Youth Organisations in West Africa", study covering
16 countries, 300 pages, 2002
Author of two unpublished novels, since 1998
Active in the Social-democratic Party of Switzerland (Member of Board, cantonal party
and district party; President, local party; President, cantonal Party Internal Education
Special Committee; President, cantonal Socialist Youth; etc.), 1991-1998
Member, Audit Commission, and Substitute Municipal Councillor, Inhabitants'
Municipality of Kriegstetten/Switzerland, 1995-1997
Head of Supply Service (DC Vsg), local sections of Swiss Civil Defence, 1994-2002
Member of non-partisan organising Working Group for the annual "Solothurn Days of
Politics", 1994-1996
Founding member and President, School Council, Commercial Vocational Training
School, Solothurn/Switzerland, 1991-1993
Member of Board, Swiss Peace Council, umbrella body of Swiss peace movement,
1991-1992
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