Prof. Dr. Silke Boenigk

• October 2008–present: (W3) Professor of Management of Public, Private and Nonprofit Organizations within the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg
• February 2009: Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Summer 2007: guest researcher, Center on Philanthropy, IUPUI, USA
• 2006–2008: senior assistant at the University of Fribourg and the University of Mannheim at the Chair of Public & Nonprofit Management (Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig)
• 2002–2006: lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute for Business and Regional Economics (IBR)
• February 2002: doctorate at the University of Basel with overall grade of summa cum laude. Topic: “Customer churn and customer win-back processes”
• 1996–2002: research associate and PhD candidate at the University of Basel (WWZ)
• 1992–1996: business administration studies at the University of Münster

• From October 2025: member of the WiSo Faculty Council, representing the Department of Socioeconomics
• Since October 2024: Director of the MSc Interdisciplinary Public and Nonprofit Studies master’s program (alternating every two years with Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel)
• 2022–May 2024: member of the newly convened Advisory Board of the WiSo faculty’s Research Office for Social Innovation (ROSI)
• 2022–2024: main member of the Faculty Council for Economics and Social Sciences (together with Prof. Dr. Dirk Gilbert)
• February 2021–February 2022: spokesperson for the field of Business Administration in the Department of Socioeconomics
• October 2020–September 2022: Director of the MSc Interdisciplinary Public and Nonprofit Studies master’s program
• 2019–2020: member of the ARNOVA Travel Grant Committee
• Editorial Board member NML (Nonprofit Management and Leadership)
• Since October 2018: scientific project management DAAD/#UHHhilft–University Help for Refugees
• September 2015–October 2018: refugee representative of the University of Hamburg
• August 2015–September 2018: Program Director of the MSc Interdisciplinary Public and Nonprofit Studies master’s program
• 2012–2015: Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

List of doctorates supervised by Prof. Dr. Boenigk (PDF).

• Advisory Board of the foundation Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung
• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
• International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
• European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP)
• Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB)
• WKÖ/VHB – The German Academic Association of Business Research. Chairwoman of the WKÖ (Section – Center of Excellence for Public Business Administration): 2009–2012