Bernd Marin

Bernd Marin ( born 1948 in Vienna) is an Austrian social scientist.

Life and career

Since 1988, Executive Director of the associated with the United Nations European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna, 1984-1988 Professor of Comparative Political and Social Research at the European University Institute ( European University Institute, EUI ), the EU - University of Florence, 1986 / 87 Dean of Social Sciences. Prof. Marin held guest lectures at numerous European universities and overseas, as at Harvard, MIT, Columbia, New York, New School for Social Research, City University of New York, Cornell University, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Montreal, Budapest, Moscow, Roskilde, Barcelona, ​​Amsterdam, Kent ( Canterbury ), Bielefeld, Paris ( Institut d' Études Politiques, Sciences Po ) and Sophia University (Tokyo) and was a visiting professor in Zurich, Warsaw, Florence and Innsbruck. In the years 2010-2013 he was Profesor Visitante por el Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Fundación HA Barceló, Faculdad de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Visiting Professor for Social Policy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, guest lecturer at the MCTC of Mashav in Haifa and visiting professor at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

In addition, he taught and conducted research at other research centers such as the Tavistock Institute London, LABOS Rome, SISWO Amsterdam, NIZW Utrecht, STAKES Helsinki, IMSERSO Madrid, IIASA Laxenburg, IWM Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies ( IHS), Vienna, the Institute of Management the Science Centre for Social Research (WZB ), Berlin, at the Max Planck Institute for social Sciences ( Starnberg ) and the Max Planck Institute for Social research ( MPIG, Cologne), the German Centre of Gerontology ( DZA ) Berlin, École at the L' National d'Administration (ENA ), the Centre for Sociology of Organisations ( CSO / CNRS) and the Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, Paris.

Marin was and is a consultant to international organizations and NGOs, scientific Rapporteur of the III. European Social Ministerial Conference 1993 in Bratislava, an expert on the UN World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995 and the regional follow-up in Vienna in 1998, Rapporteur for the Regional Implementation Strategy (RIS ) for the II International Plan of 2002 ( MIPAA ) and the Interministerial UN conferences on Ageing in Madrid 2002, Berlin 2002, León in 2007 and in Vienna in 2012, and since 2004 with a mandate until 2014 monitoring the RIS for UN Europe. He was a member of various pension reform commissions in Austria, 2009 Founding Member, for many years the Executive Board and now Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Platform for Interdisciplinary Gerontology ( ÖPIA ), he is since 2010 Chairman of the Advisory Board of SeneCura, 2012-2015 Member of the Advisory Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Academy ) on International Economic and Financial Policies / Finance and Global Economic Development, since 2013 member of the UNECE task Force on aging -Related Statistics of the Conference of European Statisticians and has worked with include the World Bank, OECD, WHO, ILO, ISSA, the euro Europe, the EBRD, ISSC, ICSW and the European Commission ( last in 2013 on the development of Active Ageing Index / AAI) together.

Marin is the author of over 150 publications in many languages ​​and over twenty books published, most recently responsible, through innovative employment initiatives, disability, aging, pension reforms, long-term care and the future of work and sustainable welfare society. Inter alia, to Millenium turn and appeared since Books on pension reforms. Sustainable social reconstruction using the example of Austria, ( with Prince Ch, October 1999 500 pp., 2nd edition), Innovative Employment Initiatives ( Ed. with Dennis Snower and Danièle Meulders, 2000, p 555 ), Facts and Figures on Disability Welfare (with Ch Prince, 2003, p 104 ), Transforming Disability Welfare Policies. Towards Work and Equal Opportunities, ( Ed. with Ch Prince and M. Queisser, 2004, p 390 ), Mainstreaming Ageing ( Ed. with Asghar Zaidi, 2008, p 850 ), Women's Work and Pensions ( Ed. with Eszter Zólyomi, 2010, 312 p), Facts and Figures on Healthy Ageing and Long -term Care Europe and North America (with R. Rodrigues, M. Huber, G. Lamura et al., 2012, 122 p). The recent monograph Welfare in Society at idle? Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health, and Welfare (2013, p 701 ) has found great resonance and approval.

Publications (selection )

• Welfare in Society at idle? Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health, and Welfare. 2013
• Facts and Figures on Healthy Ageing and Long-Term Care Europe and North America. With K. Gasior, M. Huber, G. Lamura, O. Lelke, R. Rodrigues, A. Schmidt, E. Zólyomi, 2012
• Women's Work and Pensions: What is Good, What is Best? Designing Gender - Sensitive arrangements. Ed. with E. Zólyomi, 2010
• Facts and Figures on Long -Term Care Europe and North America. With M. Huber, R. Rodrigues, F. Hoffmann, K. Gasior, 2009
• Mainstreaming Ageing. Indicators to Monitor Sustainable Policies. Ed. Asghar Zaidi with, 2007
• Transforming Disability Welfare Policies. Towards Work and Equal Opportunities. Ed. with Ch Prince and M. Queisser, 2004
• Facts and Figures on Disability Welfare. With Ch Prince, 2003
• Innovative Employment Initiatives. Ed. with Dennis Snower and Danièle Meulders, 2000
• Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites. Authoritarian prejudices and enemy images. 2000
• Pension reforms. Sustainable social reconstruction using the example of Austria. With Ch Prince, 1999, 2nd ed
• Managing AIDS: Organizational Responses in Six European Countries. Ed. with Patrick Kenis, 1997
• The future of aging. Social Policy for the Third Age. Ed. with A. Evers and K. Leichsenring, 1994
• Welfare in a Civil Society. Main author, 1993
• Policy Networks. Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations. Ed. with R. Mayntz, 1991
• Generalized Political Exchange. Antagonistic Cooperation and Integrated Policy Circuits. Editor, 1990
• Governance and Generalized Exchange. Self-Organizing Policy Networks in Action. Editor, 1990