Wolfgang Drechsler
Professor Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor of Governance. He is also
an Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center and a member of its Advisory Board. He
previously taught at the Universities of Marburg, Gießen, Frankfurt/Main, and
Tartu (Chair of Public Administration); as Visiting Professor at the
Universities of Lund and of Erfurt, at the Central University of Finance and
Economics Beijing, at the University of Malaya, at Zhejiang University and Gadjah
Mada University, at the National Institute for Development Administration
(NIDA) Bangkok, at Corvinus, and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore. In civil service, Professor Drechsler has
been Advisor to the President of Estonia, Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, and, as
an APSA Congressional Fellow, Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States
Congress. He currently directs the RND’s large-scale institutional grant on “Challenges
to State Modernization in 21st Century Europe”,
2014–19, and since 2016, he has been on the management board of IASIA. He has
been a consultant to international institutions, such as the OECD, the Council
of Europe, SIGMA, the World Bank, the European Union (especially Commission and
Parliament), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the UNDP, to national
governments, and in the private sector. He is also a recipient of the Alena Brunovskà Award for Teaching
Excellence in Public Administration.
