Christian Schwarz-Schilling

Professor of political sciences university of Sarajevo

Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, born in 1930, studied Far Eastern culture, linguistics and history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

He was a member of the Landtag (parliament) of the German state of Hesse from 1966 to 1970 and then the German Bundestag (federal parliament) from 1976 to 2002. From 1981 to 1982, during the 9^th session of the German Bundestag, he was chairman of the Research Committee on New Information and Communication Technology.

From 1982 to 1992 he was Germany's Minister for Post and Communication. After resigning from this post he founded his own management consulting company in 1993, Dr. Schwarz-Schilling & Partner GmbH, for which he continues to work on a project-related basis. Even well after leaving public office, Schwarz-Schilling continues to be actively involved in foreign policy. From 1995 to 2004 he was International Mediator in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for 17 months in 2006 and 2007 he served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, monitoring the Dayton Peace Accords.

Dr. Schwarz-Schilling currently holds a Chair for Political Sciences and International Relations at the School of Science and Technology in Sarajevo and works with CSSP on political mediation in Kosovo, Macedonia and South Serbia.