Biography
After the Abitur at the Gymnasium in Hamburg-Blankenese (North Germany) he has studied economics and political science. He received his double Diplomas (Diplom Volkswirt & Diplom-Politologe) at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1978 he received a doctorate (Promotion in Staatswissenschaften) in Decision-Making Theory and Empirical Processes covering Politics, Economics and Business from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, which became his first book published in the Westdeutscher Verlag: Studien zur Sozialwissenschaft, Bd. 42.
His university, School of Advanced Studies and Business School Professorships (Prof. of German Politics / International Relations and Economics / Global Enterprise), includes European and American Universities and Business Schools: a.o. the University of Southern California, the Johns Hopkins University and since 1990, the European University (35th Anniversary) with MBA and Executive MBA Programs at 16 European/International Campuses. Henning Behrens is Founding Father and President of the Center for Globalization (DE/IT). As Director of Global Enterprise Consult and Political Advisor he has been designing and in many cases successfully implementing core strategic projects. On the levels of Government Administrations, Mittelstand & Multinational Enterprises and International / Supranational Organizations they cover the transitions since 1989/90 from bipolar to multipolar politics, the "none-zero sum deescalated" German Reunification, the open economic and political European Integration and the economic and non-economic interfaces of Globalization vibrating the 21st century. Main consulting activities also cover the Far East with special reference to Start-up Management Projects in China's Special Economic Zones.
In his main publication Henning Behrens has documented (in the 2007– German version Global Enterprise: Panoramabild globaler Zivilisation and in the 2010 thoroughly updated English version globalization Vibrates The 21st century) a two decades covering experience of an in-depth holistic analysis, continuous teaching and practical consulting of the global/local complexities of the contemporary Globalization. In this mix of autobiographical experience, case studies and holistic concepts integrating the core elements of globalization, Behrens sets the stage for entrepreneurs, politicians, managers, employees, and private citizens for their basic orientations in the respective political, economic, social and cultural fast globalizing world of the 21st century.
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