Andrea Ulbrich began her secondment to the trade department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on 1 November 2020. This project coordinator with many years of experience in the Asia Section is following in the footsteps of Daniel Böhme. We would like to take the opportunity here to thank him for…
Our dear colleague Paul Michael Date is now retiring. We wish him all the best for the future and would also like to express our sincere gratitude to him. For over ten years we have worked with Paul in his capacity as the Head of Scientific Metrology of the Ghana Standards Authority, and we continue…
On 3 July in Ghent, Belgium, our esteemed colleague Philippe Dengler passed away following a severe illness. For many years, Philippe Dengler supported our work in North and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in Southeast Asia as an expert working intermittently and on a short-term basis. Of German heritage and born in Nancy, France, he…
On 6 and 7 February, PTB and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) jointly welcomed representatives of the evaluation units of German development cooperation organizations in Braunschweig at the traditional annual meeting. Over 60 guests from governmental and non-governmental institutions participated in order to discuss the newest developments in evaluation work. Upon…
In mid-September, Department 9.3 became a meeting place for all of the experts who regularly work for PTB in Africa and the Middle East and the employees of the “North Africa and Middle East” and “Sub-Saharan Africa” working groups. Within the scope of the “Regional days – Africa and the Middle East”, there was an…
On 6 December last year, our colleague Alex Inklaar passed away unexpectedly in Berlin. With Alex we have lost one of the most important experts for the promotion of standards in development cooperation. This obituary is also a way of dealing with the enormous loss in his circle of colleagues. It is an attempt to…