Prof. Dr. Reto Steiner

Work at ZHAW

Position

Dean at ZHAW School of Management and Law, Member of the Executive Board and Head of Academic Affairs at ZHAW

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

• Personal Website
• LinkedIn
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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

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