Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid

Programme Director Executive Master of Public Management · Hertie School of Governance

Transparente Interessen: Gründe für eine sektorübergreifende und stakeholder-orientierte Management-Ausbildung

Gerhard Hammerschmid is Professor of Public and Financial Management at the Hertie School of Governance and serves as honorary academic head at the Institut für den öffentlichen Sektor e.V. He studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen and received his PhD from WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. He was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Public Management at WU Wien from 2002 until 2008. Before that he spent two years in a federal ministry in Austria coordinating a major restructuring process as well as administrative reform projects and worked as Assistant at the WU Wien Department of Management Control.

He is (co-)author of several books on public management reforms, has published in various international journals (e.g. Public Administration, American Behavioral Scientist, Public Policy and Administration, Organization Studies, International Journal of Public Sector Management) and has a solid record of public management expertise in an international context (e.g. as expert for EUPAN, Worldbank, PHARE-Twinning, Austrian Parliament, Federal Chancellery and Ministry of Finance).