Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel has been working for the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, from 2004 and became director of the Institute in 2006. In April 2006, he was also appointed a professor in in international relations and development policy, Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen. In September/October 2008 Tobias Debiel served as Guest Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China . In November 2008 and January 2009 he held Guest Professorships at at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), close to Tel Aviv, and at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.

Amongst his publications are: Tobias Debiel / Lambach, Daniel / Pech, Birgit Pech: A Silent Farewell? State fragility as challenge to the good governance approach, in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck/Tobias Debiel/Karl-Rudolf Korte (Eds.), Governance and Legitimacy in the Globalised World. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, and Debiel, Tobias / Messner, Dirk / Nuscheler, Franz / Roth, Michèle / Ulbert, Cornelia(Eds.) : Global Trends 2010. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009 (in print).