Lukas Augustin
Lukas Augustin
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Public Sector Financial Management
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate
Teaching
Master in Business Administration – Major Public Management
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Arts in Business and Economics
University of Zurich
2019 - 2022 - Bachelor of Science in Economics
University of Bern
2017 - 2019 - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
ZHAW School of Management and Law
2013 - 2017
Network
Membership of networks
Social media
Projects
- Update of the Development Monitoring of the Canton of St. Gallen / Project leader / ongoing
- Evaluation of the Financial Strategy of a Municipality in the Canton of Lucerne / Team member / completed
- Statistical Analysis of Capacity-Building Progress of Supreme Audit Institutions in English-Speaking Africa / Team member / completed
- Analysis of Context Developments of the City of Winterthur / Co-project leader / completed
- Analysis of the Financial Development of the City of Winterthur / Deputy project leader / completed
- Fiscal data pipeline for local government research in Indonesia / Team member / completed
- Development of a dashboard for the political planning and controlling of the Canton of St. Gallen / Project leader / completed
- Evidence-based decision making in NPOs / Project leader / completed
- Evaluation des Indikatorensystems des Kantons St. Gallen / Deputy project leader / completed
- Dashboard development for the international project evaluation of Caritas Switzerland / Project leader / completed
- Financial analysis of teaching material expenditures of municipalities and cities in the Canton of Zurich / Deputy project leader / completed
- Fiscal Stress and Resilience Assessment Framework for Swiss Municipalities / Team member / completed
- Research note on the Swiss public pension system and its treatment in public sector accounting / Team member / completed
- Regulatory impact assessment of FINMA Circulars / Team member / completed
- Analysis of Inter-Municipal Collaboration in Service Delivery in the Austrian Federal State Vorarlberg / Team member / completed
- A Fitness Barometer for Municipalities. A Playful Approach to Organizational Learning / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Schuler, C., Porta, D., & Augustin, L. (2025). Identifying institutional entrepreneurs : initiative-taking and individual characteristics in Italian public sector accounting reform. Swiss Yearbook of Administrative Sciences, 16, 99–117. https://doi.org/10.5334/ssas.237
- Bergmann, A., Augustin, L., & Fuchs, S. (2019). Bilanzorientierte Haushaltssteuerung : verstärkter Fokus auf die Bilanz ist notwendig. Expert Focus, 2019(5), 396–399.
Books, peer-reviewed
Ramsden, A., Schwarz, M., Augustin, L., & Fuchs, S. (2025). Was wäre, wenn…? Sechs Drachenkönig-Szenarien für die öffentliche Finanzen der Zukunft. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35282
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Fuchs, S., Horni, P., Ramsden, A., & Augustin, L. (2025, May 8). Building robust finances : how to assess and drive financial resilience at the Swiss local government level? EGPA PSG XII Spring Workshop, Coimbra, Portugal, 8-9 May 2025.
Other publications
- Qibthiyyah, R. M., Puspita, N., Augustin, L., Ramsden, A., & Fuchs, S. (2025). Mobilizing local government revenues and 2024 local tax performance. Tax and Fiscal Policy Research. https://terc.lpem.org/en/mobilizing-local-government-revenues-and-2024-local-taxes-performance/
- Fuchs, S., Ramsden, A., Horni, P., Augustin, L., & Schwarz, M. (2024). Das Resilienz-Playbook : Finanzstrategien für Städte und Gemeinden in unsicheren Zeiten. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31864
- Fuchs, S., Küng, O., Haueter, J., Banholzer, J., Augustin, L., van Rijswijk, J., Trinkler, G., & Schwarz, M. (2023). Die Finanzielle Führung der Zukunft : Whitepaper. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30090
- Fuchs, S., Haueter, J., Banholzer, J., & Augustin, L. (2022). Die digitale Finanzverwaltung der Zukunft : Whitepaper. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ivm/upload/Die_Digitale_Finanzverwaltung_der_Zukunft.pdf