Team
Our teams have a high understanding of national, regional, social, religious and ethical peculiarities. They are able to relate these issues to international principles.
Wolf Eberhard Poulet
Managing Director
Wolf E. Poulet was born in 1944. He served from 1963 to 1994 in the German Armed Forces and retired as an Army General Staff Officer in the rank of Colonel.
Until 1997, he served as senior staffer for security policy in the German Parliament. After that he worked for a political foundation as a consultant for the „civil-military dialogue“ in several Latin American countries where he consulted government administrations, political parties, armed forces, police, universities and non-governmental organizations (NGO).
On behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) he controlled from 2001 to 2003 a project focussing on „Security Sector Reform“ (SSR) within the framework of development cooperation.
Since 2004 Wolf E. Poulet has been independently active as an internationally renowned expert for security policy and development cooperation.
With a team of security experts he founded „International Governance Consulting“ (IGC) in 2005.
Additionally, IGC has established a pool of highly competent and specialized experts which are available on a short notice.
These include women and men from law enforcement, federal and state police, armed forces, customs, secret services as well as the media, science, economy, administration and political stake holders.
Heinrich Quaden
Heinrich Quaden was born in 1944. From 1965 to 2004 he served in the German Armed Forces and retired as an Army General Staff Officer in the rank of Colonel.
During his career he attended the German and French Command and General Staff Colleges and held several command positions. He served 5 years at the Ministry of Defence working in the fields of Public Relations and training of the units.
After a tour as Directing Staff at the German Command and General Staff College he was appointed Military Attaché in Turkey for four years. He spent 2 years in the Balkans as a coordinator for the German assistance program for Macedonia, working closely together with international organizations.
Kai Friedrich Schade
Born in Heide/Northern Germany.
He received university diplomas in Economics and Sociology in Frankfurt am Main (Germany); early study periods and research concerning concepts of agricultural development, European development policy and socio-economic structures of developing countries in Sicily (Italy), Ljubliana (Slovenia) and Heidelberg (Germany).
Training as an editor at the political magazine “Offene Welt” (Open World), Frankfurt am Main.
Member of the staff of the Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, mainly: conceptualization of German developmental - /foreign policy, in relation to
- peace and conflict potentials in the frame of the North-South-configuration;
- global – local issue;
- Corporate social responsibility;
- educational concepts;
- reporting in media.
He was one of the founders of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) and promoted peace research in universities and independent foundations.
On his initiative several developmental activities, campaigns, reforms and foundations of institutions of civil society have taken place.
Already in the seventies he in the first place took part in founding the magazine “Entwicklungspolitik” (Development Policy) - a first independent forum on development issues and North-South-conflict-configuration, and acted as its editor-in-chief.
He has been also lecturer at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, he is author and editor of numerous articles, expertises and books.
He has travelled extensively in Asia and Africa.
Four times he got the reward “Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik” by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since 2005 he is a freelance - consulting, writing on articles and expertises on developmental issues and political involvement of civil society.
Rolf-Werner Markus
Political Scientist
Senior Government Official (ret)
Rolf-Werner Markus was born in 1943, studied Political Science in the German cities of Marburg and Berlin, and became a civil servant in the German Ministry of Defence, Bonn/Germany, from 1969 till 2008. During the first part of that time his responsibilities included politico-military affairs, education and training, public information, and psychological defence affairs. From 1983 till 1986, as a diplomat in the German Permanent Delegation to NATO, Brussels/Belgium, he was working on national and international force planning, and between 1988 till 1997 in the NATO International Staff as a Deputy Director he represented the Alliance on Nuclear Policy and Planning and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction items.
Between 1997 and 2002 Mr. Markus was the Head of the German Faculty at the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, Garmisch- Partenkirchen/Germany, and from 2003 till 2008 he worked as a Director of Studies at the German Federal College for Security Studies in Berlin/Germany, organizing and moderating senior security policy seminars with the main emphasis on European security and defence issues. He retired in 2008.
Mr. Markus has attended and contributed to many international security and management courses in Europe, USA, Africa, and together with his professional career he has a comprehensive knowledge in national and international security and defence relations. He is very skilled in consulting in this field and in organizing and monitoring related events.
He is living in Brussels/Belgium and speaks besides German also the English and French languages fluently, with some basic knowledge in Dutch and Russian.
Raoul Allalouf
Dipl. Pol., MBA, LL.M.
Raoul Allalouf was born 1965 in Munich. After his voluntary military service he studied Politics and Law in Munich and Augsburg. After working as Tutor for International Politics and Recent History, he was seconded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the OSCE Mission to Croatia, where he worked as Head of Field Office in Vukovar Region.
In 1998 he was seconded to Kosovo Verification Mission as Director Coordination Center and later Dep. Dir Election Dev. Department and headed the Joint Task Force on the Law on Local Self Government.
In 2000 he was hired by UN as Coordinator for Infrastructure, Economic Development and Return. He became member of the Privatization Committee and acted as Deputy Regional Administrator and Chief of Staff. In 2002 he became Head of Pillar I, for Security, Justice, Police and former Combatants. After the finalization of his MBA and LL.M. in European Law in Saarbrucken, London and Paris, he was re-seconded as Director Regional Center within OSCE, promoting Human Rights and Democratization together with his team, up to Col.ret. He served 12 years on the Balkans for international diplomatic missions and as member of 10 election observations within CIS.
Since spring 2008 he works as senior consultant in the field of governmental and security development.
His specialization lies in post conflict business consulting, entrepreneurship, b2b, -mainly in CIS; and UN, OSCE and law of IOs.