Master of Public Policy Profiles—Class of 2016
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Master of Public Policy Profiles—Class of 2016 BENEDIKT ABENDROTH GOLNAZ AGHAZADEH TABRIZI SARAH AGUILAR FLASCHKA SINDY NATALIA ALVARADO PACHON AMY AUSTIN ADRITA BAGCHI GIACOMO BAGNI MARC BARNETT NIKOLAUS BAUER MALTE BERNEAUD-KÖTZ CHRISTIAN BILFINGER BJÖRN BOENING FABIAN MATTHIAS BOHNENBERGER DARREN BROWN TOBIAS BÜNDER ALEXANDER NICLAS BUSOLD JASMIN CANTZLER STEFANO CONCI MANOLO CONSTAIN CHRISTOPHER COSLER GONZALO CROCI NICCOLO DA SETTIMO PASSETTI LANA DAMM DIYALA D’AVENI MICHAEL DAVIES-VENN AMRITA DHILLON MORITZ DIEDERICHSEN PAULYN MAY DUMAN JANNES ELFGEN CHRISTOPHER ELLIS ROWAN EMSLIE DIEGO FERNÁNDEZ FERNÁNDEZ LAURA FRANKEN TEBOGO THATO GAREITSANYE FERDINAND GENS JEKATERINA GRIGORJEVA PHILIP GRINSTED ANGIE GROSSO NOEMIE HAILU BERND HANDKE ISABELLA HAYWARD CHRISTIAN MARTIN HECKMANN KATRIN HEGER LAURENCE MARC GEORGE HENDRY KAJA VERONIKA HENGSTENBERG TIMOTHY PAUL HOBDEN CHARLOTTE VIVIAN HORNUNG MD. 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The Class of 2016 is brimming with pioneers on a mission to shape society positively in the public, private or civil society sectors. We at the Hertie School of Governance are committed to As part of a global network that includes the London providing excellent teaching with real-world application School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po for talented young people from around the globe who in Paris, Columbia University in New York, the National are dedicated to responsible policymaking and building University of Singapore, and other excellent public good governance structures. One of our responsibilities policy schools, we are able to offer a wide range of study as a school of public policy is to provide a hub of de- abroad opportunities for our students. In addition to bate and interaction between students, academics and this, our Alumni network is a strong platform for global thought leaders with different backgrounds and per- collaboration. As yet another crop of graduates joins spectives. The two-year MPP degree programme equips the pool of Hertie School Alumni and the ranks of those tomorrow’s leaders with the understanding, knowledge working to meet our current and future challenges, we and tools to excel in their future vocations, by providing are confident that these young leaders will prove assets a professional and research-intensive environment char- to whichever organisations they join. acterised by close interaction with faculty, lively public debate and engaging with current policy developments. We warmly invite you to meet our Class of 2016 and should you or your organisation wish to learn more The MPP offers an analytically challenging and problem- about them or about becoming an internship or profes- oriented education in governance, policy analysis, man- sional year partner, please do not hesitate to contact us. agement and leadership, strengthened by real-world experience in the public and private sectors. It brings together perspectives from economics, political science, law, and sociology, and trains students in quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Attracting and training students of such a consistently Prof. Helmut K. Anheier, PhD high calibre is among the Hertie School’s greatest President and Dean achievements. The average MPP student speaks 4 lan- guages, holds 2 degrees, has done 3 internships and has studied, volunteered or worked in 3 countries. After over a decade of equipping our MPPs with strategies for forging new frontiers in governance, our graduates are among those working at the cutting edge of policy- making in government, private corporations and inter- national organisations. Master of Public Policy Profiles—Class of 2016 1 The Master of Public Policy The MPP is an academically demanding degree programme with a hands-on approach, which prepares students to tackle today’s most pressing problems. The Programme An ever-changing world confronts us with a wide range “We equip future leaders to act responsibly and think of policy challenges. What degree of state intervention ahead. We want them to be aware of their responsibility do we need to regulate the financial sector? Who is going to the greater good,” says Hertie School Dean Helmut K. to pay for social security and retirement in countries with Anheier. “The MPP enables students to understand how ageing populations? How will we feed a growing world governance works so that they can contribute to making population while still preserving the environment for it better—whichever policy-related careers they choose future generations? What does the transformation of the to pursue.” Arab world mean for the communities in the region and the world at large? At the Hertie School, students have the opportunity to learn from each other as well. Half of the programme’s In order to tackle these issues and many others, policy- students are drawn from more than 40 countries, joining makers must think and act across boundaries. Learning their German counterparts in one of the world’s most and understanding why certain policies work while exciting cities. The mix of different cultures enriches stu- others fail is what Master of Public Policy students at dent life and the learning environment. In addition to the the Hertie School of Governance do during the two-year regular curriculum, the MPP offers a variety of opportu- programme in Berlin. nities through its study abroad programme for students to gain international experience within a one semester The MPP provides the tools tomorrow’s decision makers academic exchange or a year-long dual degree at leading need to analyse existing policies, critically discuss policy partner universities in North America, Europe and Asia. innovations and evaluate solutions. It is an academi- cally demanding degree programme with a hands-on, problem-oriented approach, giving students not only For more information about the Master of Public Policy knowledge but experience they can utilise across borders, contact: disciplines and sectors— be it public, private, or civil soci- ety. Students acquire the analytical skills to go out in the Dr. Barbara Finke world, wherever their interests may take them, and work Head of Graduate Programmes to promote good policies that in turn promote the public Tel. +49 (0)30 - 25 92 19-107 good. [email protected] 2 Hertie School of Governance International Experience Academic exchanges, a dual degree programme and international opportunities for work experience allow students to expand their horizons and personal networks at institutions around the world. Study Abroad Tokyo. London. Singapore. Toronto. Dar es Salaam. Or tration or Master of International Affairs at Columbia Cairo. The Hertie School of Governance offers its Master University in New York. Other options include the London of Public Policy candidates more than just a degree. The School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po in university has developed two study abroad opportuni- Paris, Milan’s Bocconi University and Tokyo University. ties that allow students to gain experience—or even a second degree—at partner institutions around the world: Students who choose the dual degree spend their first a semester-long academic exchange or a year-long dual year at the Hertie School and then their second year degree programme. In addition students spend their in- abroad at the partner school. ternships or go on a professional year for 9-15 months in a variety of countries worldwide. Hertie School alumna Snezhina Kovacheva earned de- grees from both the Hertie School and Columbia through Academic Exchange the dual degree programme. She now works at the The exchange programme is available to about 30 stu- European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. “Hertie and dents per cohort at 15 different foreign universities, Columbia changed the way I look at the world,” she says. including Duke University, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the National University of Singapore,