Dr Guhr serves as Illuminate Consulting Group’s (ICG) Managing Director and the Head of the Alumni Networks as well as Talent Acquisition Practice Areas.  Prior to founding ICG, he served as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and San Francisco, and as a Director of Business Development with SAP in Silicon Valley.

Dr Guhr has authored more than twenty research papers and studies on educational, organisational, and business issues.  He frequently speaks at international conferences and comments widely on educational policy-making and competition topics in the press.

Dr Guhr served as President of the Oxford University Society's San Diego branch from 2003 to 2006.  In 2006, he was elected to the Board of the University of Bonn's Universitätsgesellschaft. He joined the Council of the University of California at Santa Cruz's College Eight in 2007.

Dr Guhr holds a D.Phil. in Higher Education and an MSc. in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford, as well as a MA. in Political Science from Brandeis University.  His doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford on Access to Higher Education in Germany and California was published in the series Studies in Comparative Education by the Peter Lang Verlag.

Dr Guhr was also trained for three years in political science at Bonn and Harvard Universities, served as a research specialist at the Center for Studies of Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley, and conducted research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Studies in Berlin.  During his studies, he was awarded a total of 17 scholarships and grants.

Dr Daniel Guhr presented at the 1c - MENA research: report on trends and developments session.