Wolfgang Drechsler

Who is Wolfgang Drechsler?

Wolfgang Drechsler is a Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar. He is Professor and Chair of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Currently he is also Vice Dean for International Relations at its Faculty of Social Sciences.

Drechsler holds degrees from Bridgewater College, the University of Virginia, the University of Marburg, and the German Post-Graduate School of Public Administration Speyer. Between 1993 and 2006, he was Professor of Public Administration and Government at the University of Tartu. Before coming to Estonia, and during this time, he taught at Universities of Marburg, Giessen, and Frankfurt am Main, all Germany. He was Visiting Professor of Sociology in Lund, Sweden, in 1997, of Governance at the University of Erfurt, Germany, in 2007, and of Public Management at the Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland, in 2011; he is currently - since 2012 - André Molitor Chair of Political, Administrative and International Reforms at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China. Drechsler also teaches at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. He has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German reunification, and, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. He was the Vice Chairman of the executive board of Praxis, Estonia’s pre-eminent public policy think-tank, and a member of the Innovation Policy Council of the Estonian Ministry of Economics.