1. Family name: Hofmann (Prof. Dr.)

2. First names: Harald

3. Nationality: German

4. Civil status: Married

5. Education:

6. Key qualifications:

• Long-standing experience in the management of projects and university courses within the public sector

• Extensive practical experience in public administration management as well as academic experience covering teaching and research

• Development and leading of projects and workshops on democratization and administrative-reform in Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) Volgograd (Russia) and Beijing and Shanghai (China)

• Organizing and implementation of workshops and courses for staff and students of the Russian “Volgograd Academy of Administration” in Cologne and in Volgograd (within the city-partnership Volgograd-Cologne) and the Chinese “Beijing Administrative College” in Cologne, Beijing and Shanghai (within the city-partnership Beijing-Cologne)

• Conduction of conferences for management-staff officials of Macedonia (EU-Program „Strengthening Local Government - Program to promote Minority Rights and Inter-ethnic Cooperation in the Countries of former Yugoslavia“)

• Organizing and implementation of workshops, courses and information tours in Germany for management-staff-officials and administration-officials of Chinese towns and Chinese regions.

• Member of the “Research-group Online Participation” 

• https://www.hspv.nrw.de/forschung/forschungsgruppen/polpa/uebersicht

7. Present position:

Professor of Law + Administration + Local Self-Government

at the

University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://www.hspv.nrw.de/en/

8. Years within the firm: 35

9. Other relevant information:

1. (Founding Author and Co-) Author of :

1. “Administration and Law”, (Hofmann/Hildebrandt/Gunia/Zeissler), 12-th edition, 439pages   https://shop.kohlhammer.de/allgemeines-verwaltungsrecht-2258.html#147=23

and

2. “Municipal and local Self-government”, (Hofmann/Bätge/Wiesner), 20-th edition, 718 pages  https://www.ksv-medien.de/Kommunalrecht-in-Nordrhein-Westfalen/00660000

- both partly translated into Czech, Russian and Chinese language;

2. Research-Project on citizens-participation based on the municipal-code (supported by the Federal State of North-Rhine-Westphalia); Report 3-rd edition;

3. Four times Advisor to the Parliament of the Federal State of North-Rhine-Westphalia, concerning the reform of the municipal law;

4. Numerous Publications in periodicals of legal science (essentially about public administration, law and local Self-government);

5. Second Research-Project on local Self-Government and Public Referenda (supported by the Federal State of North-Rhine-Westphalia), published in periodicals of legal science;

6. joint Chinese-German research project (with the Beijing Administrative College) about administration. (published in Beijing, see above in "Books").