Ruediger Heining


Ruediger Heining is a German graduate economist and agricultural scientist. He is considered an expert on vocational education and development in South-West Europe and the Caucasus and since 2017 has been managing director of the DEULA Baden-Wuerttemberg in Kirchheim unter Teck and vice-president of the Bundesverbandes DEULA..

Life and Work

From 1993 Heining studied management, agricultural economics, agricultural politics, operational management and marketing at the University of Hohenheim and obtained his diploma in1998. Thereafter he studied for a master‘s degree in international agricultural economics under Franz Heidhues and Juergen Zeddies in Hohenheim. He also studied in the areas of E-learning systems, and an introduction into synchronous and asychronous E-learning software at the University of Hagen, each time obtaining a graduation certificate.
From 1998 bis 2004 Heining worked as a scientific assistant, firstly at the East European Centre of Hohenheim University, then from 2001 as area head for Eastern Europe at the university‘s own project enterprise, IBH GmbH, where he was project manager for EU-PHARE, EU-TACIS, EU research projects and EU Twinning Projects, together with responsibility for the implementation of the Leonardo-da-Vinci project. Since 2010 he has also been active as an expert for the World Bank where he is involved in a project „Quality Management and Customer Orientation in Agricultural Administration“.
Following a number of foreign postings in connection with EU Twinning Projects he was active at the UNDP in Georgia

International Engagement