Johannes Paulmann

In 1991, he finished his doctorate, his dissertation titled Staat und Arbeitsmarkt in Großbritannien (The State and the Labor Market in Great Britain), which was supervised by Gerhard A. Ritter.

At the same time, Paulmann became a professor of modern history at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

He was a visiting professor at Emory University in Atlanta, at the London School of Economics, and at Magdalen College in Oxford.

From October 2014 to June 2015, Paulmann was the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at St Antony’s College in Oxford.

In cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross, he oversees research on worldwide humanitarian work from the past 150 years.