Hertie School Executive Education Seminar on Global Public Policy

Project objectives

The Hertie School of Governance is a new public policy school located in Berlin. GPPi cooperates with the Hertie School on developing and teaching an executive education seminar on "global public policy".

In 2004, GPPi conceptualised the Hertie School of Governance’s first ever executive seminar on "global public policy". The executive seminar on "global public policy" brought together about 30 participants from the public, business and not-for-profit sectors, who see themselves as ‘cross-sectoral entrepreneurs’ with a global outlook. GPPi Director Wolfgang Reinicke was the Dean of the first executive seminar. As a learning forum, the seminar equipped participants with a conceptual and practical roadmap for operating in the new global governance environment – be it in companies, international organizations, or national agencies. In 2005, the second executive seminar on "global public policy" took place from August 29-September 3 in Berlin.

Building on the success of the first two seminars, the 2006 Hertie School executive seminar took place in Berlin from August 27-September 1 2006. It brought together 20 participants from a wide range of organisations such as, the Federal Foreign Office, Human Rights Watch, the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, among others. The seminar was led by Wolfgang Reinicke and Thorsten Benner, who were joined during many of the sessions by academics and practitioners to share their expertise. Among these were John G. Ruggie (Harvard University and UN Special Representative on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises), Klaus Leisinger (Novartis Foundation and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Global Compact) and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Cambridge and Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute). An evening lecture by Mary Robinson, past President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was also part of the seminar’s program.