Bert Hoffmann, PhD is Lead Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, scholar at the GIGA Berlin Office, and Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He also is vice President of CEISAL (Council of Social Research on Latin America in Europe) and Principal Investigator of the German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research & Training (GLACIER).
Bert Hoffmann has taught numerous university courses and has worked on major research projects. These include various research projects on Cuba’s political, economic and social transformations since 1989; a five-country comparative study on the regulation and use of new information and communication technologies in Latin America; a 22-country study on emigrant policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
He has published widely on political issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. For more information and a list of publications see: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/hoffmann-bert
