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November 2005
ROBERT C. RICKARDS
ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
1945 Born on 24. 8. in Danville, Pennsylvania, USA. Parents: Harold and Harriet Rickards.
1946-1963 Resident in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. Primary Education: Manoa Elementary School. Secondary Education: Haverford Township Jr. and Sr. High Schools. Degree: High School Diploma.
1963-1967 Undergraduate studies at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Degree: B.A. "With High Honors" and "Departmental Honors" in Foreign Careers (an interdisciplinary program of international business administration, economics, political science, and foreign languages).

Lehigh University Trustee Fellow (full scholarship).
1967-1968 Fulbright-Hayes Fellow at the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Graduate studies in economics and social sciences.
1968-1969 Graduate studies in economics and political science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. Degree: M.A. in Economics, 1970.

National Defense Fellow in Economics (full scholarship).
1969-1971 Financial analyst (1969-1970) and controller (1970-1971) on the International Finance Staff International Finance Staff, World Headquarters, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.

Began graduate studies in political science and economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

National Defense Foreign Language Fellow in Russian (full scholarship).
1971 Commissioned, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army.
1972 Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
1973 Degree: M.A. Degree in Political Science, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Commencement of doctoral studies.
1974 Member, Institute of Management Accountants.

Degree: C. Phil. in Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Center for West European Studies Fellow (full scholarship).

DAAD Pre-Dissertation Fellow in Bonn.
1975-1976 Social Science Research Council--American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at the Institute for Local Government Administration, University of Münster, Germany, dissertation fieldwork.

First Lieutenant, 112th Provost Company, Royal Military Police, British Rhine Army (exchange officer).
1976 Continuation of doctoral studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Graduate, Officer's Advanced Course, U.S. Army Finance School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN.
1977-1978 Head of Department for Accounting, Budgeting, and Economic Development, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA.
1978-1980 Lecturer (teaching primarily budgeting, governmental accounting, and statistics), Political Science Department, University of Missouri -- St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1980 Ph. D. in Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1980-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor (teaching primarily budgeting, governmental accounting, and statistics), Government Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
1981 Fulbright-Hayes Fellow (Summer 1981) in Bonn und Berlin.
1982-1985 Assistant Professor (teaching primarily budgeting, governmental accounting, and statistics), Government Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
1984 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (Summer 1984).
1985-1992 Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, (teaching primarily budgeting, governmental accounting, financial management, and statistics), Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

Director, M.B.A./M.P.A. dual-degree program.
1987-1989 Associate Professor of Economics (in summer program, teaching accounting, budgeting and financial management), Economic Research Institute, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
1989-1992 Director of three successive, annual research and training projects sponsored by the Japan-United States Friendship Commisssion.
1990 Negotiated faculty/student exchange programs with Politechnika Krakowska, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, and Kyung Hee University (South Korea).
1991 2 Prizes as "Teacher of the Year" at the University of Texas at Austin and from the U. S. Army.

Negotiated faculty/student exchange programs with Oita University (Japan) und Han Nam University (South Korea).

Consultant for U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank in Poland: assessed municipal financial capacity in 30 cities.
1992 Negotiated faculty/student exchange programs with Charles University,(Czech Republic) and the University of Constance (Germany).
1992-1993 Associate Professor of Business Administration and Economics (teaching accounting, finance, international management, and statistics), European Division, University of Maryland, Heidelberg, Germany.
1993 Marriage with Birgit Hesse.
1993-1996 Professor (C2) of Business Administration and Economics, College of Public Administratrion -- North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, Germany.

Negotiated faculty/student exchange programs with University of Liverpool (U.K.) and Université de Lille (France).

Consultant (accounting systems and controlling) for ORDO, GmbH, restructuring the Nikolajyiv Alumina Works, Ukraine.
1994 Birth of son Ryan Henri.
1996 Birth of son Jérémy Paul.

Retired, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserves, after eight annual summer tours of duty as Assistant Army Attaché, U.S. Embassy, Bonn.
Since 1996 Professor (C3) of Controlling and Management Accounting, Harz University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, Germany.
1996-1998 Director of the international MBA program and the undergraduate "dual-degree" programs "International Business Studies" and "International Tourism Studies."

Negotiated faculty/student exchange programs with "dual-degree" partners: University of Cardiff (Wales, UK), Southern Oregon University, (USA), University of South Carolina (USA), and Pfeiffer University (M.B.A.) (USA).

Team Leader, ICON, GmbH, for the European Union's Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States Project, "Public Administration Capacity-Building, Turkmenistan": introduction of modern accounting and budgeting procedures.
1997 Developed process accounting system to divide costs more accurately between emergency medical and fire departments' dispatcher service on contract for Ohre County and the IKK Sachsen-Anhalt (medical insurance company). Results adopted statewide in Saxony-Anhalt and cited in court decisions in Lower Saxony and Hessia.
1998-2001 Chair Professor (C4) in Controlling and Accounting, The International University in Germany, Bruchsal.

Development and introduction of a controlling system for the IKK Sachsen-Anhalt (medical insurance company), Magdeburg, Germany.

Consultant for international business planning games, Merck, KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
1999 Improvement of cost accounting and introduction of controlling systems for the Dr. Genthe GmbH & Co., Glashüttenwerk, Goslar, Germany (a parts supplier to the European automobile industry).
2000 Seminar leader for eCommerce training at SAP University, Waldorf, Germany.
2001-2004 Adjunct Professor for Comparative International Accounting and Financial Accounting in the MBA-Program of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Handelshochschule Leipzig, Germany.
2002 Adjunct Professor for Financial Accounting in the BBA-Program of the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland.
Since 2004 Provisional holder of the TUI Chair in International Management, Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Handelshochschule Leipzig, Germany.