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Mathias Mogge

Mathias Mogge (born March 16, 1964) is a German agricultural engineer and environmental scientist who serves as Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of the international humanitarian aid organization Welthungerhilfe.

Early life and education / Career

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Mathias Mogge grew up in Göttingen, Germany, where he graduated from high school in 1984.

He holds master’s degrees in both agricultural engineering and environmental science, earned respectively from Leibniz-University Hanover (1992) and from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (2007).

Mogge was a development aid officer from 1993 to 1995 with the Deutsche Entwicklungsdienst (German Development Service), working on its Natural Resource Management Project in Kutum, Darfur, Sudan.

He started at Welthungerhilfe in 1998 as a program manager and, through 2001, oversaw projects in Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan. From 2001 to 2005, he served in Bamako, Mali, as regional director for West Africa, coordinating Welthungerhilfe's programs in Mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone. From 2005 onward, he headed the organization’s Knowledge, Innovation and Consulting Division in Bonn.

In March 2010, Mogge was appointed program director of Welthungerhilfe, and since September 2018 has served as Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer[1].

Personal life

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Mogge is married with three children, lives in Bonn and plays guitar with the indie pop band White Maze[2].

Memberships and affiliations

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Mogge has served since December, 2021, as co-chairman of Germany’s Association of German Development and Humanitarian Organizations, or VENRO (der Verband Entwicklungspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen e. V.). He had been an honorary member of the Executive Management of VENRO since 2013[3].

Since November 2021, Mogge has served on the Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)[4].

He is a member of the Ambassador Council of the Aid by Trade Foundation[5] and member of the Advisory Board of the Hidden Hunger Conference Series of the University of Hohenheim[6]. Since 2010, Mogge has been an adviser to the German government’s main development agency, the German Society for International Development, or GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), serving on GIZ’s Advisory Group for Development-Oriented Agricultural Research, or BEAF (Beratungsgruppe Entwicklungsorientierte Agrarforschung).

From 1999 to 2013, he served as honorary chairman of the certification committee of Ecocert SA[7].

Publications

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  • Mathias Mogge, Bärbel Mosebach, Normann Steinmeier: Neue Partnerschaften für einen Humanitären Paradigmenwechsel. In: Michael Heuser, Tarek Abdelalem (Eds.): Internationale Herausforderungen humanitärer NGOs: Verbindung von Mission und modernem Management. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2021, ISBN 978-3-662-62493-7, pp. 205–248.
  • Mathias Mogge, Thomas Heyland, Justine Roberts: An Innovative Social Enterprise Model Addressing Food Losses in Zimbabwe. In: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Braun" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="Joachim von Braun" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig cx-link" data-linkid="61">Joachim von Braun</a>, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Roy Steiner (Eds.): Food Loss and Waste Reduction. Scripta Varia 147, Vatican City 2020, ISBN 978-88-7761-115-4, pp. 131–142. (online)
  • Mathias Mogge, Simone Welte: Programming towards Improved Nutrition: Welthungerhilfe’s Approach to the Prevention of Malnutrition – In All Its Forms. In: Hans Konrad Biesalski (Eds.): Hidden Hunger and the Transformation of Food Systems. How to Combat the Double Burden of Malnutrition? Volume 121. Karger, Basel 2020, ISBN 978-3-318-06697-5, pp. 105–115.
  • Mathias Mogge, Andrea Sonntag: Without Land, No Crops – Without Diversity, No Healthy and Sustainable Diets. In: Hans Konrad Biesalski, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Birner" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="Regina Birner" class="cx-link" data-linkid="77">Regina Birner</a> (Eds.): Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality. Volume 118. Karger, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-318-06252-6, pp. 57–64.
  • Mathias Mogge i.a.: Leitfaden Wirkungsorientierung in den Projekten und Programmen der Welthungerhilfe, Part I–III. Bonn 2008 (online)
  • Mathias Mogge und Hubertus Rüffer: Programme responses to address the ultra poor from an NGO perspective. In: rural21. International Journal for Rural Development. Issue 05/2008. (PDF-Datei, 226kb).
  • Mathias Mogge i.a.: Kreativität unter Armutsbedingungen – Beispiele aus Mali, Ghana und Äthiopien. In: Afrika verstehen lernen, 12 Bausteine für Unterricht und Projekttage. bpb, Bonn 2007, pp. 177–206.
  • Mathias Mogge und Jochen Schröder: Organizing access to local seeds in a context of crisis. In: Leisa Magazine. Leusden, Netherlands, ISSN 1569-8424, Issue 6/2005.
  • Mathias Mogge und Theo Riedke: Ländliche Rehabilitation und zivile Konfliktbearbeitung in den Nubabergen – Sudan. In: Fahrenhorst Brigitte (Hrsg.): Die Rolle der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in gewalttätigen Konflikten. Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-9804456-3-4, pp. 190–198.
  • Mathias Mogge i.a.: Extension through farmer experimentation in Sudan. In: Laurens van Veldhuizen (Ed..): Farmer’s Research in Practice. London 1997, ISBN 978-1-85339-392-1, pp. 89–108.
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References

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  1. ^ Welthungerhilfe. "Wechsel an der Spitze der Welthungerhilfe" (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  2. ^ "Website der Band White Maze" (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  3. ^ VENRO (2021-12-14). "VENRO mit neuer Doppelspitze". venro.org (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  4. ^ "Partnership Council". Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  5. ^ Aid by Trade Foundation. "Kuratorium" (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. ^ Universität Hohenheim. "International Conference Hidden Hunger: Organizers". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. ^ ECOCERT. "List of Supervisory Committee Members" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-02-25.


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