Prof. em. Dr. Christoph Reichard

Christoph Reichard has been shaping the debate on "Public Management" in Germany for a long time. He was professor of public management at the Polytechnic University of Public Administration and later at the Polytechnic University of Technology and Economics (1994-1997), both in Berlin. From 1997 to 2006, he held the Chair for Public Management at the University of Potsdam. Prof. Reichard is affiliated to the Institute of Local Government Studies of the University, and is still teaching in several postgraduate programs of the university, e.g. in the German-French Master of European Governance and Administration (MEGA) program. He served as chair of the European Association of Public Administration Accreditation for more than 15 years and is co-chair of the PhD-Symposium and of the permanent study group on “PA and Teaching” of EGPA. Furthermore, he is member of the editorial board and reviewer of numerous scientific journals and a member of several international and German professional associations. His recent research concentrates on public management reforms, on issues of performance management, on problems of the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises, on budgeting and accounting reforms and on the study of Public Administration education in European countries.