Nick Ziegler is Research Professor at the Watson Institute, Brown University. His current interests focus on generational differences in policy areas including corporate governance, financial market regulation, and climate change. Prior to joining the faculty at Brown, he taught at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the Political Science Department, Berkeley. He is author of Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany (Cornell University Press) and articles on comparative technology issues in World Politics, Daedalus, Politics and Society, Current History and other journals. Ziegler has also written a series of chapters articles on the role of ideas and professional expertise in finance. At Hertie, he will be examining the problem of long-term policies that require maintaining investments over multiple generations while also adapting institutions to changing circumstances. Examples include pensions, financial-market regulation, and, increasingly, climate change. Ziegler has been a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the German Marshall Fund, the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, and Nuffield College at Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard and a B.A. in History from Princeton.
