Prof. Dr. Reto Steiner

Prof. Dr. Reto Steiner
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Focus
Public Management, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector, Local and Regional Governance, Public Corporate Governance
Teaching
- University of Bern
- ETH Zurich
Experience
- Dean and Professor at ZHAW School of Management and Law
ZHAW
2017 - today - Visiting Professor for Public Management
University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
2020 - 2020 - Contract Professor for Strategic Management in the Public Sector
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
2016 - 2018 - Founder and Managing Director
Swiss Institute for Public Management
2016 - 2017 - Member of the Management Board
Center of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern
2002 - 2016 - Visiting Research Fellow
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS)
2013 - 2013 - Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong (SAR, China)
2013 - 2013 - Visiting Professor for Business Administration in the Public Sector
Vienna University of Economics and Business
2008 - 2008
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Dr. rer. oec. / Management
University of Bern
1997 - 2002 - Mag. rer. pol. / Management
University of Bern
1991 - 1996
Network
Membership of networks
- Member of the Board of Governors of Beta Gamma Sigma. Representative of European Universities (USA)
- Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 44th Annual Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) in 2028
- Representative of Switzerland in the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government at the Council of Europe (France)
- Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD Program in “Public Management and Governance” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
- Member of the commission "Education" of the chamber UAS of swissuniversities
- Chair of the Special Interest Group "Local Governance" of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Faculty of Business Administration at Prague University of Economics and Business (Czech Republic)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the School of Business, Woxsen University (India)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the "International Journal of Public Sector Management"
- Member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Verwaltung & Management”
- European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference Chair in 2022
- President of the Board at NMS Bern
- President of the Reformed Church Congregation of Langenthal
Social media
Projects
- The Relevance and Success of Co-Production in Local Governance / Team member / Start imminent
- Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe: Dynamics and Effects from a Cross-Countries and Over-Time Comparative Perspective (DIGILOG) / Project leader / ongoing
- Data Monitoring Local Communities in Switzerland / Project leader / completed
Research Data
Steiner, Reto; Ladner, Andreas; Kaiser, Claire; Haus, Alexander; Amsellem, Ada; Machljankin, Jana, 2019. Gemeindemonitoring der Schweizer Gemeinden. SWISSUbase. Available from: https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-1116-1