Dr. Thomas Gebhardt

Thomas Gebhardt is the Academic Manager of the Potsdam Center for Policy and Management (PCPM) and Head of "Executive Education - Public Policy and Management" of UP Transfer GmbH, the non-profit knowledge transfer firm of the University of Potsdam. Before joining the University of Potsdam in 1999, Thomas worked as a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy Research (ZeS) of the University of Bremen. Thomas holds a Master's degree from the New School for Social Research, New York (1993), a doctorate in Sociology from the Free University Berlin (1997) and has received deep-systemic training (Artop, Berlin; Simon, Weber and Friends, Berlin). Thomas is "Professional Coach" of the German Federal Association of Executive Coaching (DBVC). Recent consultancy assignments include work for German International Cooperation (GIZ), the German Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Bosch-Foundation.