Dr Christoph Demmke

Dr. Christoph Demmke (DE) is Professor of Comparative Public Administration at the European Institute of Public Administration at Maastricht, Visitring Professor at the College of Europe (B) and Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maastricht. He earned a Master's degree in Political Science, having studied in Münster (DE), Hamburg (DE), and Nice (FR). He worked at the German Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences and holds a PhD in Administrative Sciences. He has taught Comparative Public Administration at several European Universities (e.g. Speyer, Santander, Bruge), national civil service academies (e.g. the European Administrative School) and European institutions. He was an Emile Noel Fellow at Harvard Law School and was a Visiting Fellow at American University (USA) and the University of Georgia (USA). His fields of specialisation are the implementation of European environmental policy and law and the comparative study of public service reform (including human resource management reforms). He has published many books and articles on comparative public service reforms and the implementation of EU environmental law, among others topics. Mr Demmke acts as a consultant to various ministries of the EU Member States and regularly is an advisor to the Directors-General of Public Service of the Member States of the EU.