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Helmut K. Anheier and the Alumni Council are pleased to announce the Alumni Reunion 2018. Please save the date!

On 1 September, we will celebrate the success of our latest EMPA graduates together with new and current students and the Hertie School community. Constanze Stelzenmüller (The Brookings Institution) will be the commencement speaker.

Opening lecture by Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies) on 'Fragility and resilience: What can save Europe from itself?' and presentation of the first Dr. Michael Endres Prize to Theodor Baums by Frank-Jürgen Weise.

All EMPA graduating students will present their thesis projects in a poster exhibition. A poster award committee consisting of Andrea Römmele (Hertie School), Anne von Fallois (Kienbaum Consultants International), and others, will select the best poster.

Graduation Ceremony of the Class of 2017 of the school‘s Master of Public Policy, Master of International Affairs and Doctoral Programme in Governance with a commencement speech by Michael Ignatieff (President and Rector of the Central European University, CEU) and remarks by Hertie School President Helmut K. Anheier, MPP and MIA Director Mark Hallerberg, and PhD Director Michaela Kreyenfeld.

All MIA and MPP graduating students will present their thesis projects in a poster exhibition. You are invited to our finissage on 19 May, 5:00 - 7:00 pm where prizes for the three best posters will be awarded by Mark Hallerberg (Hertie School).