Hertie School

Hertie School of Governance

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Type	Private university
Established	2003
Dean	Helmut K. Anheier
Students	179 full-time
Location	Berlin , Germany
Campus	Friedrichstraße
Colours	red, grey, and white
Website	www.hertie-school.org

the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin's Friedrichstraße

Hertie School of Governance

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study area and library

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The Hertie School of Governance is a private university in Berlin, in the historic Quartier 110 of Friedrichstraße. The school is regarded as one of the leading policy institutes in Europe. Half of the students in the Hertie School come from abroad, and the working language is English.

The Hertie School offers to its students the opportunity to complete a "professional year" at a ministry, government agency, or international organization. In addition to this possibility research collaboration with faculty is encouraged.

History

The Hertie School of Governance was founded in 2003 as one of the first German professional schools for public policy. It is a project of the conservative Hertie Foundation, located in Frankfurt / Main.

In February 2005, the Hertie School was awarded state recognition as an institution of higher learning by the Berlin Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur). The work of the Hertie School is based on four pillars: Research, Degree Programmes (Master of Public Policy, Executive Master of Public Management, and the Berlin School for Transnational Studies), Executive Education, and Knowledge Transfer.

Academic Programmes

The Master of Public Policy (MPP) programme offers teaching on governance tasks in the public, civil society, and private sectors. The programme is intended for students pursuing a future career dealing professionally with problems of modern governance. Upon completion of the two-year programme, students receive the Master of Public Policy (MPP), an internationally-recognised degree. Prospective students have typically studied economics, law, or political science, but candidates from every field of study apply for admission.

The Executive Master of Public Management (EMPM) programme is aimed at experienced professionals for whom cooperation between government, business, and civil society is an important part of their work. Participants in the EMPM programme choose an individual area of concentration and can either study full-time over a period of one year or complete the programme over a period of two years if they wish to study part-time while working. Prospective students must have at least two years' professional work experience, as well as an educational background in economics, law, or social sciences.

The Hertie School of Governance also offers a PhD study programme as part of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), a joint endeavour of the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG), and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

Faculty

The school's core faculty currently consists of Dean Helmut K. Anheier, Henrik Enderlein, Jobst Fiedler, Alexander Graser, Mark Hallerberg, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Anke Hassel, Klaus Hurrelmann, Markus Jachtenfuchs, Mark Andreas Kayser, Claudia Kemfert, Nico Krisch, Stein Kuhnle, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Claus Offe, Ulrich K. Preuß, Andrea Römmele, and Kai Wegrich.

Hertie School adjuncts and senior fellows include Wilfried Bolewski, Fraser Cameron, Jürgen Chrobog, Hans Peter Grüner, Inge Kaul, Stormy-Annika Mildner, Kenneth Newton, Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Wolfgang Seibel, and Sonja Wälti.

Current guest lecturers are, among others, Benjamin R. Barber, Christoph Bertram, Xinyuan Dai, Michael Goodhart, Daniel Hamilton, Klaus-Dirk Henke, Ilona Kickbusch, Wolfgang Merkel, Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Michaele Schreyer, and Georg Sørensen.

Partnerships

The Hertie School of Governance has established three dual degree programmes (for which admission to both schools is needed): with the MPA Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the MPA Programme at SciencesPo, and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, the CLAPI Programme at Bocconi University.

Apart from the dual degree programmes, students also have the option to spend an exchange semester at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) at Georgetown University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the School of Public Policy & Management at Tsinghua University, the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, American University School of Public Affairs at American University and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

The Hertie School of Governance also has partnerships in the Berlin education landscape: with the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB), the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), the European School of Management and Technology (esmt), and the University of Potsdam.

Furthermore, the Hertie School is a member of key political science and policy analysis associations. These include the European Consortium on Political Science Research (ECPR), the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the Association of Professional School of International Affairs (APSIA), PolicyNet, and the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN).

Admissions

The Hertie School of Governance is a highly selective institution. The MPP class of 2012 consists of 96 students selected from a pool of 745 applicants (13% of intakes/applications). Up to 10 of the new students may join a dual degree program, after being accepted by a partner university.

Board of Trustees and Supervisory Board

The Hertie School of Governance is a non-profit, limited-liability company and is supported by a Board of Trustees and a Supervisory Board. The Board of Trustees plays an active role in the institution’s overall development, while the Supervisory Board supports and monitors the School’s finances.

Board of Trustees members:

• Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf (Honorary Chairman), former Minister President of Saxony
• Dr. h.c. Frank-J. Weise (Chairman), Chairman, German Federal Employment Agency
• Frank Mattern, (Vice Chairman), Managing Partner, Germany, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

• Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Clement, former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour; former Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel, Rector, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
• Dr. Michael Endres, Chairman of the Hertie Foundation; former Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Deutsche Bank AG
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo di Fabio, Member, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Second Senate)
• Prof. Mary Kaldor, PhD, Professor of Global Governance and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, President, University of Hamburg
• Dr. Klaus Mangold, Chairman of the Eastern Committee of German Business
• Thomas Oppermann, MdB, Head of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag; former Minister for Science and Culture, Lower Saxony
• Dr. Manfred Overhaus, former State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Finance
• Dr. Norbert Röttgen, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Dr. Marcus Schenck, Chief Financial Officer, E.ON AG
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Schön, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; Honorary Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Research Professor for New Forms of Governance, Social Science Research Center Berlin
• Dr. Ursula Weidenfeld, freelance journalist and author
• Dr. Bernhard Wunderlin, Vice CEO of the Hertie Foundation; former CEO Harald Quandt Holding GmbH, Bad Homburg

Supervisory Board members:

• Dr. Michael Endres (Chairman), Chairman of the Hertie Foundation; former Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Deutsche Bank AG
• Dr. Dr. Peter Bettermann, General Partner, Freudenberg & Co., Weinheim
• Prof. Dr. Michael Madeja, Managing Director of the Hertie Foundation
• Dr. Bernhard Wunderlin, Vice CEO of the Hertie Foundation; former CEO Harald Quandt Holding GmbH, Bad Homburg

External links

• Hertie School of Governance website
• 2011 Dahrendorf Symposium - Changing the Debate on Europe – Moving Beyond Conventional Wisdoms
• 2011 Dahrendorf Symposium Blog
• newspaper article: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 19 September 2005: Studieren für gutes Regieren
• newspaper article: Die Welt, 8 October 2005: Regieren lernen
• newspaper article: Der Tagesspiegel, 24 January 2010: Die Schule der verlorenen Moral