Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid
Professor of Public & Financial Management
KPMG-endowed professorship
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 the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU 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 currently is co-project leader for the EU FP 7 research project Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future (COCOPS).
During the 2012 spring semester, Gerhard Hammerschmid is conducting research and teaching as a Guest Professor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZOG).
Research & Expertise
Professor Hammerschmid's key areas of research interest and expertise are:
- Public management
- Public management reform
- Performance management
- Public corporate governance
- Public service motivation
- Social identity
- Management control
- Comparative public administration
- Organization theory
- New institutionalism
The Berlin-based Institut für den öffentlichen Sektor e.V. has published a policy paper on government debt in Germany and proposes specific steps for returning to sustainable and credible public finances. Hertie School Honorary Chairman Kurt Biedenkopf and Board Member Manfred Overhaus, who are part of the institute’s Advisory Board, are among the authors. In the paper, they express concern that the level of public debt in Germany threatens to limit opportunities for future generations and they advocate substantive measures for reducing the debt burden as well as preventing the accumulation of further debt. The paper explores means of increasing transparency and emphasizes that municipalities can and must play a key role in improving Germany’s public finances. The authors have been adviced by Hertie School Professor Gerhard Hammerschmid who is also academic head of the institute.
The full paper “Runter vom Schuldenberg: Plädoyer für eine nachhaltige und transparente Finanzpolitik“ is available for download here [more]
Articles n the paper appeared in Handelsblatt [more]
Hertie School Professor Gerhard Hammerschmidt is quoted in: Was Spitzenkräfte schätzen
