Wolfgang Nowak serves as an international advisor of the Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea. He is a Fellow at the NRW-School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Until December 2012 he has been Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the International Forum of Deutsche Bank. Wolfgang Nowak initiated the Urban Age programme, which is an international investigation into the future of the world’s mega-cities in the 21st century jointly organized with the London School of Economics.
He has held various senior positions in Germany’s state and federal governments, France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris and UNESCO.
He also served as a Member of the Metropolitan Leadership Council of the Brookings Institution, Washington.
After the unification he was state secretary of education in Saxony from 1990 to 1994. Moreover he was Director-General for Political Analysis and Planning at the German Federal Chancellery from 1999 to 2002. He lectures and publishes widely on academic issues and is a regular commentator for German television and newspapers.
Since 2012 he travels regularly to China, North Korea, South Korea and Japan discussing Korean Affairs with governments and parties.
Wolfgang Nowak also founded the Erich Pommer Institute for Media Law and Management at the University of Potsdam. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Office, the Lawrence and Lee Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations. In addition he is a Fellow of the Munich-based Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP).
