The Chair of Governance
Governance - Staatswissenschaften - this is at the same time the most modern and most ancient concept in public affairs. Contrary to differentiations based on academic fields, it is focused around its object, and that is the state, or the public sphere - traditionally including public law, public economics, public administration and, from political science, the sub-fields of government and state theory. In the original concept of governance, the focus is on steering in a given time in place, by all three sectors - government, business, and society.
The Chair was founded in 2006 and filled with Wolfgang Drechsler, previously Professor and Chair of Public Administration and Government at the University of Tartu and already Professor extraordinary of Technology Governance and Public Management at TUT.
In the picture, Prof. Wolfgang Drechsler, Dr. Ringa Raudla and Aleksandr Aidarov.
Professor Wolfgang Drechsler
Professor Wolfgang Drechsler BA (Bridgewater College) MA (University of Virginia) PhD (University of Marburg) is Chair of Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (TUT), and Vice Dean for International Relations of its Faculty of Social Sciences. He has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, and, as an APSA Congressional Fellow, as Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. Wolfgang Drechsler has been a consultant to several international agencies, most recently to the EU, the OECD, the Council of Europe, SIGMA, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the UNDP; he has worked, in various capacities, on national development plans of Estonia, Peru, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Norway. He has received NISPAcee’s Alena Brunovskà Award for Teaching Excellence and its Merit Award; the Estonian National Science Award, Social Science category; the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Bridgewater College; the Maarjamaa Rist, Estonia’s Order of Merit; and the German Federal Merit Cross. One of his current areas of interest is Non-Western, especially Chinese and Islamic, Public Administration; he is also dealing with Public Administration, Technology, and Innovation; with Web 2.0 Governance; and with Public Management Reform. Contacts: wolfgang dot drechsler at ttu dot ee
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Professor Jan A. Kregel
Professor Jan A. Kregel PhD (Rutgers University) is Professor of Finance and Development. Kregel just retired as Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the Financing for Development Office of UNDESA, the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), being in essence its chief economist. For many years, he held the Chair for Political Economy at the University of Bologna. He was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins SAIS, whose Bologna Center he co-directed in the late 1980s, and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in London and is counted as one of the leading post-Keynesian economists today. His main area of interest is finance. Contacts: jankregel at yahoo dot com
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Dr. Ringa Raudla
Senior Research Fellow Ringa Raudla, BA, MA (University of Tartu) and PhD (University of Erfurt) has previously worked as a lecturer at University of Tartu and as a visiting lecturer at University of Erfurt. She teaches courses on public finance, public sector financial management, Law & Economics and research methods. Her main research interests are budgeting, fiscal governance and fiscal policy, social insurance, institutional economics and constitutional political economy. She has worked (and is currently working) as an advisory expert to the Ministry of Finance, the National Audit Office and Praxis on different issues (strategic management, performance management and performance budgeting, fiscal rules, budget transparency and citizen’s guide to budget). She currently holds the Mobilitas grant for post-doctorate studies and participates in FP Project COCOPS and target financing grant “Public Administration and Development in Small States”. Ringa is also a board member of NISPACee. Contacts: ringa dot raudla at gmail dot com
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Leno Saarniit
Lecturer and Program Director of Bachelor studies Leno Saarniit BA MA (University of Tartu) was in 2003-2007 a member of work-group responsible for the development of anti-corruption strategies at the Estonian Ministry of Justice and has previously worked at the Legal Chancellor’s Office and at Tartu City Government. In recent years she has taught introductory courses in Public Management, Environmental Policy and Public Ethics. Contacts: leno dot saarniit at ttu dot ee
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Aavik, T.; Keerus, K.; Lõuk, K.; Nõmper, A; Pevkur, A.; Saarniit, L.; Simm, K.; Sutrop, M.;Tõnissaar, M.; Vaher, A.; Volt, I. (2007). Eetikakoodeksite käsiraamat. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus
Saarniit, L. (2006). Eesti avaliku teenistuse eetikakoodeks ja selle rakendamine. Tartu Ülikooli Eetikakeskuse aastaraamat (456 - 468). Eesti: Tallinn: Tartu Ülikool
Saarniit, L. (2006). A Public Service Code of Ethics Applied in a Transitional Setting: The Case of Estonia. Public Integrity, 8, 49 - 63
Illimar Ploom
Research Fellow Illimar Ploom BA MA (University of Tartu) has previously lectured also at the University of Tartu and worked as the Co-ordinator of the EMPA network at both universities. In recent years he has taught introductory courses on Public Administration, Political Science and the European Union and his previous professional experience includes working as a News Correspondent and Editor at the Estonian National Broadcasting Corporation. Contacts: illimar dot ploom at ttu dot ee
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Aleksandr Aidarov
Lecturer Aleksandr Aidarov BA MA (University of Tartu) has previously worked at the Bureau of Integration and Ethnic Affairs. Since 2006 he has read the following lectures: Models of Welfare Society, Introduction to Sociology, Administration and Institutions and Economic Analysis of Legal Acts. Contacts: aleksandr dot aidarov at ttu dot ee
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Benjamin Merkler
Specialist. Contacts: merkler at staff dot ttu dot ee