Dr. Harald Wilkoszewski
Short bio
Harald Wilkoszewski is Head of Communications and Spokesman of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He leads the Department of Communications including press, editorial and event management staff as well as staff for alumni relations and the Friends of the WZB.
Prior to this post, he was Head of the Information Centre and Brussels Office of Population Europe. He also worked as a Policy Analyst for the OECD's Education Directorate in Paris, as a Research Scientist for the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and as Head of Working Group at the Berlin-based think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung.
Harald holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an MA in Political Science, European Law, and Religious Science from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU). Harald also studied at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor (ICPSR), the University College Cork (ERASMUS), and the International Max Planck Research School for Demography (IMPRSD).
Op-eds, essays and blogs:
Allmendinger, Jutta und Harald Wilkoszewski (2022): Kontrapunkte in schwierigen Zeiten, WZB-Mitteilungen Nr. 175, März 2022, 65
Allmendinger, Jutta und Harald Wilkoszewski (2021): The pearl fishers, Vorwort zu "Handel's Steckenpferd. An Anglo-German Dialogue between Steffen Huck and Sir Peter Jonas", WZB-EOC Schriften Vol. 4, April 2021
Allmendinger, Jutta und Harald Wilkoszewski (2020): Ohne Druck geht es nicht. Forschung wirkt unweigerlich in Politik und Gesellschaft hinein. Daher müssen sich Wissenschaftler beharrlich in politische Diskurse einmischen, Forschung & Lehre, 10. Februar 2020
Allmendinger, Jutta und Harald Wilkoszewski (2019): Sagt was! Wissenschaft kann in diesen Zeiten nicht unpolitisch sein. Ein Plädoyer für eine gesellschaftlich engagierte Forschung, Tagesspiegel, 2. Oktober 2019
Wilkoszewski, Harald, Elke Loichinger, and Patrick Dick (2016): Turning the tables: policy and politics in an age of ageing. Population Europe Policy Insights, Blog post, 18 October 2016
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2016): That (demographic) ship has sailed: Even a 100% turnout by young Brits or lowering the voting age could not have prevented Brexit. Population Europe Policy Insights, Blog post, 5 July 2016
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2016): Daddy quotas - How Europe can help mothers and fathers. The Brussels Times, Op-Ed, 23 May 2016
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2013): What a Tangled Web We Weave: Strategies for School Improvement. educationtoday, OECD-Blog, 30 July 2013
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2010): Sozialpolitisches Überraschungsei. Berliner Republik, Ausgabe 5/2010, 41-44
Selected publications:
Edel, Andreas, Diana Lopez-Falcon, Emily Lines, Harald Wilkoszewski und Ann Zimmermann (2017): Forschungsnetzwerke als Öffentlichkeitskatalysatoren für die Wissenschaft. In: Stefan Selke und Annette Treibel (Hg.): Öffentliche Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Springer VS
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2017): How will ageing affect social cohesion?. In: James W. Vaupel and Andreas Edel (Eds.): Green Book Ageing Society, Population Europe
Wilkoszewski, Harald and Eli Sundby (2016): From Hard to Soft Governance in Multi-level Education Systems, European Journal of Education, doi:10.1111/ejed.12189
Wilkoszewski, Harald and Eli Sundby (2014): Steering from the Centre: New modes of Governance in Multi-level Education Systems, OECD Education Working Papers, No. 109, OECD Publishing, Paris, 35 Seiten
Hooge, Edith, Tracey Burns, and Harald Wilkoszewski (2012): Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and Multiple School Accountability, OECD Education Working Papers, No. 85, OECD Publishing, Paris, 29 Seiten
Bengtsson ,Tommy, Jane C. Falkingham Jane C., Anne Gauthier, Nico van Nimwegen, James W. Vaupel, Harald Wilkoszewski, and Frans J. Willekens (2012): Perspectives of policy-relevant population studies, Population Europe Discussion Paper, No. 1, Berlin, 16 Seiten
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2011): Germany's Social Policy Challenge, London School of Economics and Political Science, 330 Seiten (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2009): Demographic Change - A Major Political Problem Zone, in: MaxPlanckResearch 4/2009, 5-10
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2009): Age trajectories of social policy preferences. Support for intergenerational transfers from a demographic perspective, MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-34
Wilkoszewski, Harald and Elena Muth (2009): Demographic change and the acceptance of population-related policies. A comparison of 13 European countries, MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-35
Wilkoszewski, Harald (2003): Die verdrängte Generation. Politische Parteien und die alterndes Gesellschaft in Deutschland, Marburg: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 196 Seiten