Holger-Michael Arndt

*1971 in Berlin
Lawyer and Mediator
Managing director 
CIVIC GmbH –Institute for International Education
Location: Düsseldorf
arndt@civic-institute.eu 
0049 / (0)211 / 23 38 855
  • Jurisprudence studies, main field public law and European law, East-European history and Polish Philology at Georg August University in Göttingen and Jagiellonian University in Cracow
  • Complementary studies in European law and project management at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
  • Admitted as lawyer in Düsseldorf

Since 2003 he has been working in the field of basic and advanced trainings for managers in the public sector of German federal and state authorities and authorities especially in the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Luxemburg and Poland. He focuses particularly on policies and law of the European Union as well as questions concerning German administrative law. For the Akademie des deutschen Beamtenbundes (dbb akademie e.V.) he has been managing the field of "integrity management, compliance and prevention of corruption in the public administration".

Already from 2007 until 2009 in the position of Resident-Twinning-Advisor (RTA) he was responsible for a project of the European Union on prevention of corruption in the public administration in Warsaw (PL). He was also active in this field as a consultant on behalf of the Council of Europe in the Ukraine.

For the German Federal Office of Administration since 2011 as a project leader he has been in charge of the EU multinational twinning project for Montenegro on strengthening of national anticorruption authorities and implementation of the national anticorruption strategy and national integrity plans.

Since 2012 he has been also an expert of the European Union within the TAIEX strategy for the Republic of Macedonia on implementation of the whistleblower systems in the public administration.

Already since his time as a student Holger-Michael Arndt has been a member of foundation board in the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim/Auschwitz (Poland). 2011 he was appointed by the Republic of Macedonia Honorary Consul in Germany based in Düsseldorf responsible for the administrative district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Working priorities:

  • Prevention of corruption in business and public administration
  • Strengthening of integrity and ethics at work
  • Implementation of compliance strategies
  • Execution of risk surveys and risk assessments on identification of working areas that are vulnerable to corruption
  • Further and advanced education for managers as a component of personnel development
  • Law of the European Union
  • Antidiscrimination and equal treatment (AGG)
  • Enlargement and integration policy of the European Union
  • Supporting of Southeast Europe in business and public administration
  • Development of simulation games
  • Capacity building of minorities in Europe

Publications Holger-Michael Arndt