Christoph Demmke

Visiting professor, European Political and Administrative Studies Department

Dr. Christoph Demmke (DE) is Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration at Maastricht and Visiting 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 (Speyer, Santander, Florence, Louvain), 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. He is an advisor to the Directors-General of Public Service of the Member States of the EU, and he is a permanent member of the EPAN HRM-working group of the rotating EU Presidency. From 2004-2007 he acted as advisor to the Irish, Dutch, Luxemburgish, Austrian and German EU Presidencies in the field of HRM- and Civil Service reforms (e.g. ethics and integrity, status developments of civil servants, decentralisation of responsibilities and accountability in the field of HRM, Performance Measurement etc.). He was also consulted by the ministers responsible for the public service (regarding the creation of a European Administrative Space, Luxembourg 2005). Mr. Demmke is regularly advising the different EU-Presidencies in the field of Public Services- and HRM-reforms.