Hans N. Weiler

Hans N. Weiler is a Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science at Stanford University, and a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and former rector of the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Born September 13, 1934, in Krefeld/Germany, Weiler is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is married and has two sons.
Weiler graduated from the Hochschule St. Georgen, Frankfurt/Main in Philosophy (1956) and went on to study Philosophy, Political Science, and Education at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau, where he graduated in 1960, followed by a stay at the University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies and School of Oriental and African Studies.
In 1962 he took up a position as Research Fellow and Chairman of the Africa Division at the University of Freiburg's Arnold Bergstraesser Institute where he obtained a Dr. phil. in Political Science (1965).
That same year Weiler became Assistant Professor of Education and Political Science at Stanford University (Associate Professor as of 1971, full Professor 1979). From 1974-77 he was on leave as Director of the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO) at Paris.
From 1993-99 Weiler was Professor of Comparative Politics and Rektor of the Europa-Universität Viadrina at Frankfurt/Oder.

• British Council Postgraduate Research Fellow, University of London, 1960–61
• Scholar-in-Residence, Institute for German Studies, Indiana University, 1971
• Academy Associate (to James B. Conant), National Academy of Education, 1972
• University Fellow, Stanford University, 1979–81
• Claude Eggertsen Lecture, Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, 1983
• Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1988
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1988–89
• Research Fellow: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1990; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1991
• The Lauwerys Memorial Lecture, Comparative Education Society of Europe, Groningen, 1998
• Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 1999
• Honorary Citizenship, City of Frankfurt (Oder), 2000
• Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2001
• Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h.c.), Viadrina European University, 2002
• “Reformer of the Decade Award”, Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), 2004