Prof. Dr. phil. Marcelo da Veiga

2020 // Chair of the AIB Foundation

2019 // Academic Coordinator of EKS-FOM

2019 // Spokesperson of EUFOM Business School

2018 // Founding and management of the Institute for Education and Social Innovation (ibugi)

2018 // Guest seat on the Accreditation Council

2018 // Head of the Institute for Education and Social Innovation (IBUGI)

2017 // Professor of Philosophy and Society and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Education

2016// Member of the Executive Board of the VPH

2014 // Extension of term of office as Rector until 31 March 2017

2009 // Re-elected Rector of Alanus University

2005 // Re-elected Rector and responsible for the academic expansion of Alanus University

2003 // Professorship in Philosophy (appointed at the end of 2002)

2002 // Founding Rector and Rector of Alanus University until 31 March 2017

2002 // Professor of Educational and Cultural Philosophy at Alanus University and elected Founding Rector

2001 // Project Manager at the Software AG Foundation, Darmstadt, with a focus on schools and universities. Responsible for the state recognition procedure of Alanus University at the Ministry of Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

1995 – 2001 // Development and management consultancy for privately run schools and universities

1993 – 1999 // Professor of German Literature and Aesthetics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil

1989 – 1993 // Worked as an upper secondary school teacher in Sao Paulo

1986 – 1989 // Doctoral scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and doctorate at Mercator University Duisburg, topic: “Reality and Freedom”

1981 – 1985  // Studied Comparative Religious Studies, German Studies, Philosophy and Education in Bonn, Bochum and Duisburg

Professorship in Philosophy and Society

My main areas of work lie in connecting philosophical thinking with the topics of education, intellectual development, and social responsibility. I am also concerned with the development, support, and implementation of projects in the field of social and cultural entrepreneurship on the one hand, and advising universities on questions of quality assurance and the development of degree programmes on the other.

Philosophy and Social Innovation

The focus of my work lies in the connection of philosophical thinking with issues of education, spiritual development, and social responsibility. Alongside this I am interested in developing, supporting and implementing projects in two main areas: social and cultural entrepreneurship, and consultancy at universities in the fields of quality assurance and the development of both study programmes and degree-awarding programmes.