Join us for Policy & Pizza and get to know the Hertie School by debating with professors and experts on the topics that are most relevant to our society today.
Do the current events and crises that dominate the headlines keep you up at night? Do you ever wish that someone would help you make sense of it all? Our professors here at the Hertie School are there for you, and they've even brought pizza.
Join us for our latest open series Policy & Pizza and get to know the Hertie School by debating with experts on the topics that are most relevant to our society today. If you are interested in our master's programmes, also feel free to talk to our admissions staff while fighting over one of the last slices.
This edition will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid on the subject, Debunking the GovTech hype: Potentials and challenges of start-ups for government digitalisation. Free drinks and pizza will be served from 5:30 pm, and the talk will begin at 6:00 pm.
Please register in advance via the form on right or by sending an email to m.poet@hertie-school.org
In conversation with
Gerhard Hammerschmid is Professor of Public and Financial Management and Director of the Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School. His research focuses on the topics of administrative management, comparative administrative research, performance management in the public sector and human resource management. Hammerschmid is also the scientific director of the Institute for the Public Sector eV and is a coordinator and partner in several EU-funded research projects (COCOPS, LIPSE, EUPACK , TROPICO) involved in the reform of public administration. He was visiting professor at Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and Copenhagen Business School. Before working at the Hertie School, he worked at the Institute for Public Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and was responsible for the implementation of extensive restructuring processes and administrative reform in an Austrian federal ministry as a coordinator for three years. Gerhard Hammerschmid studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen and received his doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
