Ulrich Tietze
Survey Coordinator
Luanda, Angola
As the Survey Coordinator for Angola, Ulrich
has overall responsibility for the preparation,
execution and completion of the national Landmine
Impact Survey in the country. This includes coordinating
the training for all survey team personnel, monitoring
the activities of the national Landmine Impact
Survey teams and carrying out field visits as
required ensuring survey standards are met. In
addition, he works closely with the Quality Assurance/Monitoring
Officers to guarantee that the survey is completed
according to survey protocols for UN certification,
as well as liaising and coordinating activities
with the INAROEE, CNIDAH, donors, the Angolan
government and the UN.
Ulrich has ten years experience in the international development and relief fields in a variety of settings. He began his career working for Medico International from 1994 through 1999. During this time he served as the Project Manager for resettlement and food security for IDPs in Kurdistan/Iraq, the Program Director in Angola, and as the Project Coordinator for mine action projects in Angola, Kurdistan-Iraq and Somalia. Since 2000, Ulrich was based in Mozambique as the Regional Coordinator for Southern Africa for the German organization, Terre Des Hommes. While there he supervised programs on children’s rights and protection, gender empowerment, and community development in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola and South Africa. Prior to his involvement in international development, Ulrich was an engineer in Berlin. From 1976 to 1977 he taught mathematics and physics at Martin-Buber College. Between 1977 and 1987 he was a Biomedical Engineer for the University Clinic Steglitz, and for the German Heart Center. He concluded his career as Executive Director with Medin GmbH, where he worked from 1988 through 1994.
Ulrich is a German national with two daughters. He received a Baccalaureate in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry from Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn in 1971, and his PhD in Medical Physics from Free University in Berlin in 1975. Ulrich speaks German, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
