Tobias Bach is a fellow at the Hertie School. He is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Political Science and at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a political scientist specialised in Public Policy and Administration. He earned his PhD at the University of Potsdam (2013). He has previously worked as a researcher and teacher at the Hertie School (Berlin), the University of Hannover, and the University of Potsdam. He was a visiting researcher at the Public Governance Institute in Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Bergen (Norway), among others. His research interests cover the structure and organization of government and executive politics in an internationally comparative perspective. He is co-editor (with Kai Wegrich) of “The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination” (2019, Palgrave Macmillan) which explores how day-to-day decision-making in public sector organizations is subject to different types of organizational attention biases. For more information on publications, see his Google Scholar profile.
