11: Innovation in a contested environment: from the outside in and the inside out
In cooperation with Future of Diplomacy Project, HKS - Harvard Kennedy School
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Hauptschule
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in englischer SpracheHow can we create lasting innovation in public policy organisations and bureaucracies? How can we make a culture of change sustainable as part of organisational culture? Participants and experts will explore successes and failures of change management in foreign and public policy organisations.
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BA Sabrina HERSI ISSA
Co-Founder, End Famine and Chief Executive Officer, Be Bold Media, Washington D.C.
| 2004-2007 | Reporter/Producer, National Public Radio/WOSU Public Media |
| 2006 | Bachelor of Arts in International Relations & Diplomacy, Political Science, Women Studies, The Ohio State University |
| 2006-2007 | Multimedia Communications, Oxfam America |
| Deputy Director, Afghans for Civil Society | |
| 2007-2008 | National Digital Director, Women’s Editorial Forum |
| since 2010 | Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Be Bold Media |
| since 2011 | Co-Founder, End Famine |
| 2012-2014 | Fellow, Roosevelt Institute |
| since 2014 | Journalist & Opinion Writer, Guardian US & Outlets |
Mag. MPA Josef LENTSCH
Managing Partner, The Innovation in Politics Insitute, Berlin
| 2000-2007 | Co-Founder; Managing Partner, UNIPORT, Vienna |
| 2000-2008 | Master of Science in Psychology, University of Vienna |
| 2008-2010 | Master of Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School |
| 2010-2012 | Head of Fellowship Services, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London |
| 2012-2013 | Director, RSA International, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London |
| Founding Board Member, NEOS | |
| 2014-2018 | Founding Director, NEOS Lab, Vienna |
| since 2019 | Managing Partner, The Innovation in Politics Insitute, Berlin |
MA Jan TECHAU
Director, Richard C. Holbrooke Forum for the Study of Diplomacy and Governance, American Academy, Berlin
| Jan Techau is the director of Carnegie Europe, the European think tank of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Techau works on EU integration and foreign policy, transatlantic affairs, and German foreign and security policy. | |
| Before joining Carnegie in March 2011, Techau served in the NATO Defense College's Research Division from February 2010 until February 2011. He was director of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin between 2006 and 2010, and from 2001 to 2006 he served at the German Ministry of Defense's Press and Information Department. | |
| Techau is an associate scholar at the Center for European Policy Analysis and an associate fellow at both the German Council on Foreign Relations and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He is a regular contributor to German and international news media and writes a weekly column for Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe blog. |
MPA MA Cathryn CLÜVER ASHBROOK
Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge
| Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a German and American national and the founding Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), which examines the challenges to negotiation and statecraft in the 21st century. In January 2018, she was named Executive Director of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship. From 2011-2017, she served as the Executive Director of the India and South Asia Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HKS, a program which ended formal activities in 2018. Her areas of expertise include EU-US relations - including trade and security policy - and digital public policy in urban and national contexts. She served on the management team of the European Policy Centre in Brussels, where she was the Deputy Editor of its public policy journal, Challenge Europe and the think tank’s Communications Director, before joining Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as Senior Journalist and consultant in 2005. There, she worked on public policy issues (demographic change, urban competitiveness, green energy) and advised both the consultancy’s Chinese and French offices on branding and communication strategies. In 2009 she served in the second Bloomberg mayoral administration, where she implemented an online program for New York City's 1.8 million limited-English-proficiency migrants to access essential public services. She began her public service career as a legislative adviser at the European Parliament and later the UK House of Commons. |
