He is an international cultural development planner and cultural management trainer and founder and director of the »Network for Cultural Consulting« in Berlin. Since 2004, he was responsible for over 40 long term participatory cultural planning projects for cities, regions and states. As a lecturer, speaker and trainer, he works worldwide at universities and institutions (e.g. Austria, Egypt, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Luxemburg, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Tunesia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, USA, Vietnam, Yemen). He regularly publishes in the fields of cultural policy and cultural management. Since 2014, he is involved as a trainer and coach in the development and the execution of different empowerment projects in Ukraine, latest the Cultural Transformation Lab Ukraine. From 2016 until 2021, he was on the board of the »Education and Discource« division of the Goethe-Institut.