My services
My services can easily be summarized: I’m specialized in scientific consultation, with a focus in evaluation (both formative and summary) as well as training. My areas of speciality are development policy, migration policy and labour-market and social-policy.
In my working-experience for the past ten years, I have completed a variety of projects, like e. g.:
- project-evaluations for development cooperation in Kenya, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Senegal, Turkey, Ghana and Nigeria
- evaluation of EU-funded programmes, e. g. development partnerships under the EQUAL community initiative
- trainings and workshops for project-management and training of journalists
- civic and adult education, university courses
- scientific contract-studies like e. g. country-assessments for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI)
My biography
- 2012: extrordinary professorship for political science at the University of Muenster
- since 2011: foundation of company Micado Migration Ltd. (co-founder), part-time employment as a researcher, continuation of free-lance activities
- since 2005: full-time freelance consultant
- 2002-2005: consultant with AGEF-company
- 1999-2002: consultant with “Centre for European and Third World”
- 1998-2005: part-time freelance consultant, teaching at the universities of Muenster, Saarbruecken and Trier)
- 1996-1998: scholarship by “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG)
- 1995-1996: research assistant University of Muenster
- 1993-1995: PhD (political science)
- 1988-1993: university studies in political science, sociology and history (University of Muenster)
- 1973-1986: schooling in Wilhelmshaven
- 24.12.1966: born in Fuerstenau
Getting in contact
Please get in contact with me by Email. You will normally receive an answer within 24 hours, also on weekends and holidays.
For telephone, please call 0049-681-6853887. If I’m not available, please leave a message and I will get in touch with you.
For contact by mail, please send all inquiries to:
Dirk van den Boom
International Consulting Services
P. O. Box 20 06 26
66047 Saarbruecken
Germany