Prof. DR. Frank Ziegele is executive director of the CHE Centre for Higher Education, Gütersloh, as well as professor for higher education and research management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. As an expert for higher education he is active as a consultant, researcher, trainer and speaker all over the world. He holds a master in economics and business studies from University Hohenheim and a Ph.D. from Ruhr-University Bochum.
He is responsible for large-scale applied research projects (such as the European U-Multirank project), but also for the practical implementation of reforms in the higher education sector (for instance as Worldbank consultant). He has implemented master and vocational training programs for higher education management and leads workshops and peer learning activities all over the world (e.g. for the European Commission). In more than 20 years he has contributed with more than 150 publications and more than 100 national and international projects to the field of higher education. He is or was a member in numerous boards, such as editorial boards, the advisory board of the German Network for Research and Transfer management (FORTRAMA) and the board of the German Society for Higher Education Research.