PhD in agricultural economics and ecology with a regional specialisation in Africa. Long experience as researcher at various institutions, including Gesamthochschule Kassel, Berlin Social Science Center, German Development Institute (DIE).

Research and teaching in: Rural and agricultural development, water resource management, adaptation to climate change, evaluation and impact analysis of development policy.

• Responsible for SLE courses, especially on development policy.
• Project leader, sub-projects SP 8 'Climate Change and Ecological Sustainability of Horticultural Value Chains' and SP 13 'Transferring research results into policies and practice', German-Kenyan research project HORTINLEA.
• Impact analyses of COMPACI in Zambia, Benin, Malawi, with various African partner institutions, work on 'conservation agriculture', DEG/NORC/AbTF, 2014-2017.
• Project leader, sub-projects SP 8 'Climate Change and Ecological Sustainability of Horticultural Value Chains' and SP 13 'Transferring research results into policies and practice', German-Kenyan research project HORTINLEA
• Project leader, didactics advisory project: Institut Rurale Politechnique (GTZ) in Mali.
• Impact analyses of COMPACI in Zambia, Benin, Malawi, with various African partner institutions, work on 'conservation agriculture', DEG/NORC/AbTF, 2009-2011.
• Carrying out three DIE projects (Länderarbeitsgruppen, LAG) in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Zambia on rural development and resource management, 2001, 2006, 2011.
• Head of training for 43rd cohort of trainees, DIE Bonn, 2007.
• Evaluations / impact analyses, BMZ/GTZ/KfW/NGO/DEZA.
• Development and wide application of a new method for participatory impact analysis of programmes and projects, (MAPP)/DIE.
• Project leader in four research and consultancy projects on: Climate change and development in Africa (2008-2009), virtual water trading (2006-2007), cross-border water resource management (2003-2005), water and poverty (2002), DIE, funded by the BMZ.
• Project leader, EU project “Splash” “: Transferring Reserach Results into Policies and Practise, DIE Bonn.
• Teacher in 'sustainable development' distance learning programme, Kaiserslautern.
• Member of spokesperson team for working group on development policy for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Evaluation (DeGEval, German Society for Evaluation).
• Member of the central department on development aid, MISEREOR, Aachen.

• Neubert, Dr. S., Mack, D. & Roxin, H. (2014). Vom Methodenstreit zum Methodenmix - Chronologie und Stand der Entwicklungsevaluierung in Deutschland (From Method Debates to Method Mixing - Chronology of Evaluation in Development Co-operation). In: Böttcher, W. / Kerlen, Ch. / Maats, P. / Schwab, O. (eds.): Evaluation in Deutschland und Österreich, Waxmann, Münster - N.Y., pp. 61-73.
• Neubert, Dr. S. (2013). Participatory impact assessment of farmer productivity programmes in Africa 183. In: Hoffmann, J. / Chambers, R. (2013): Who counts? The power of participatory statistics, Practical Action Publishing, S. 183-197.
• Neubert, Dr. S. (2012). Internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Wandel. In: Fiege, Dr. K. / Rauch, Prof. Dr. T. (Hrsg.): Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gestalten: Inhalte und Methoden für ein erfolgreiches Wirken in einem komplexen Berufsfeld. SLE-Publikationsreihe - S. 248, Berlin, S. 10-34.
• Neubert, Dr. S., Kömm, M., Krumsiek, A., Schulte, A., Tatge, N., Zeppenfeld, L. (2011). Agricultural Development in a Changing Climate in Zambia – Increasing Resilience to Climate Change and Economic Shocks in Crop Production. DIE Study 57, Bonn, 200 S.
• Neubert, Dr. S. & Faust, J. (Hrsg.) (2010). Wirksamere Entwicklungspolitik - Befunde, Reformen, Instrumente - Reihe Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik, Band 8, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 434 S.
• Neubert, Dr. S. (mit Scheumann, W. / Kipping, M.) (2008) (Hrsg.). Water Politics, Policies and Development Cooperation: Local Powerplay and Global Governance, Springer, Geosciences, 416 S.
• Neubert, Dr. S. (mit Horlemann, L.) (2007 und 2014). Virtual Water Trade: A Realistic Concept for Resolving the Water Crises. DIE Study 25, Bonn, 128 S. In German, English and Persian.

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