Michael Windfuhr is Secretary General of FIAN-International. He began working for FIAN in 1988, and during the 1990s worked at FIAN part-time while co-ordinating a research project at IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) , teaching at the University of Heidelberg (1993–95), and lecturing at Heidelberg’s Institute for Political Science (1995–2000). Michael has published articles in scientific journals and newspapers, and several books on international economics.