IES Profile

Professor Eckhard Schroeter holds higher degrees in political science from the Free University of Berlin as well as the London School of Economics and Political Science and receiving his Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin in 1995. His major areas of research and teaching include comparative public administration, theories of the state, German and European politics as well as urban politics and metropolitan governance. Before coming to UC Berkeley, he taught at the Institute of Social Sciences at the

	Professor Eckhard Schroeter

Humboldt-University in Berlin. Having examined transformation processes in eastern Germany after unification in his first research projects, he has shifted attentions to issues of administrative reform in Western Europe. His more recent publications include: ed. with Hellmut Wollmann, Comparing Public Sector Reform in Germany and the UK (Aldershot 2000); ed., Empirische Policy- und Verwaltungsforschung (Opladen 2001); ed. with Manfred Roeber and Hellmut Wollmann, Moderne Verwaltung fuer moderne Metropolen (Opladen 2002). At Berkeley he will extend earlier investigations on the new public management into a comprehensive cross-national project comparing various North American and European approaches toward public sector modernization.

At UC Berkeley, Eckhard Schroeter holds the position of visiting professor in the Department of Political Science and Visiting Scholar at CGES. In addition, he has been appointed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to the newly established directorship of the DAAD Consulting Center in San Francisco. Reflecting the outstanding importance of the Bay Area for transatlantic academic exchange programs, this new liaison office is the first of its kind in North America and part of a high-profile initiative to raise the visibility of study and research opportunities at German universities and research centers. Once fully functional, the DAAD Center will provide students and scholars with information concerning the possibilites of continuing their studies or research work at a German universities; it will also make the latest news about DAAD scholarships available. Furthermore, this new DAAD outreach program will establish a forum for DAAD grantees and alumni as well as international scholars from the Bay Area so as to facilitate cross-national exchanges. In order to serve individuals and universities from the wider Bay Area region, the Center, together with the Goethe-Institute (German Cultural Center)will have its administrative base in San Francisco. Professor Schroeter will also cooperate closely with CGES, thus building on already well-established links and successful partnerships to continue to strengthen the academic transatlantic ties even further. As a case in point, the inauguration of the new DAAD representation on the West Coast will be marked by a joint reception in the Spring semester.

Contact: DAAD Consulting Center, c/o Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 95108 or direct: Eckhard Schroeter, UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science, 210 Barrows Hall, phone: (510)642-5310, fax: (510)632-9515, email: eschroet@socrates.berkeley.edu