Dr. Sylvia Ortlieb

Consultant for intercultural competence

Studied ethnology, political sciences and oriental studies in Munich, Kassel and Damascus. Various stays and research work in Arabian countries.

Consultant for and assistant in international and Euro-Arabian projects and cooperations (among others at the international central institute for the youth and education channel of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian broadcasting company).

Various publications and lectures about the Arabian world for political, economic, public and ecclesiestical institutions.

Planning and performance of seminars dealing with Arabian countries for municipal departments.

Author of "Business-Knigge für den Orient. Mit Kulturkompetenz zu wirtschaftlichem Erfolg (BW-Verlag, Nürnberg)" (Etiquette manual for business in Oriental countries. Economic success with cultural competence, BW publishing house, Nuremberg).

H.H. Sheikh Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of United Arab Emirates.

"Interkultureller Dialog: Deutschland - Abu Dhabi", presentation within an event of the Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft in cooperation with Zayed - University Abu Dhabi, May 2006, with Vice President Dr. Sulaiman al-Jassim, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.

"Kultur und Business am Golf", lecture in Emirates Palace Hotel.