Holger-Michael Arndt
Lawyer and Mediator
CIVIC GmbH –Institute for International Education
Location: Düsseldorf
arndt@civic-institute.eu
0049 / (0)211 / 23 38 855
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Studies in Law, with a focus on Public Law and European Law, as well as Eastern European History and Polish Philology, at Georg August University of Göttingen and Jagiellonian University in Kraków
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Additional studies in European Law and Project Management at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer
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Admitted to the bar; legal practice established in Düsseldorf
Since 2003, he has been working in the field of education, training, and advanced professional development for managers in the public sector, including German federal and state authorities as well as public institutions, particularly in North Macedonia, Montenegro, Luxembourg, and Poland. His work focuses primarily on European Union law and policy, as well as issues of German administrative law.
From 2007 to 2009, he served as Resident Twinning Advisor (RTA) for a European Union project on corruption prevention in public administration in Warsaw (Poland). In this field, he also worked as a consultant on behalf of the Council of Europe in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
From 2011 to 2016, he worked for the German Federal Office of Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt, BVA) as a project manager in multinational EU Twinning projects in Montenegro and North Macedonia. These projects focused on strengthening national anti-corruption authorities, implementing national anti-corruption strategies, and introducing national integrity plans. His work later continued in Albania, Armenia, and for the Secretariat-General of ASEAN in Jakarta.
Until 2017, Holger-Michael Arndt served for more than eighteen years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Youth Meeting Centre in Auschwitz/Oświęcim (Poland).
In 2011, he was appointed by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) as Honorary Consul in Germany, based in Düsseldorf, with responsibility for North Rhine-Westphalia.
Since 2023, in addition to his work for the CIVIC Institute, Holger-Michael Arndt has also served as Managing Director of the Academy of the German Civil Service Federation (dbb akademie GmbH) in Bonn.
Working priorities:
- Prevention of corruption in business and public administration
- Strengthening integrity and ethics in the workplace
- Implementation of compliance strategies
- Conducting risk assessments and risk analyses to identify corruption-prone work areas
- Executive training and professional development as part of personnel development
- European Union law
- European anti-discrimination and equal treatment policy (AGG)
- EU enlargement and integration policy
- Promotion of Southeast Europe expertise in business and public administration
- Development of simulation games
- Capacity building of minorities in Europe