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Email stno@zhaw.ch

Bio Reto Steiner is dean at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur/Zurich (Switzerland) (Triple Crown Accredited Business School) (since 2017). Additionally, he teaches at the University of Bern and at the ETH Zurich.

He has extensively published on the management of agencies, state-owned enterprises, digital transformation and artificial intelligence in the pulic sector, decentralization and local governance and serves on various international academic boards.

The Scholar worked as a senior lecturer, professor and member of the management board at the Center of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern (2002-2016), as a managing director at the Swiss Institute for Public Management (2016-2017) and as a Contract Professor for Strategic Management in the Public Sector at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2016-2018). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong in 2013. In 2020, Reto Steiner was Visiting Professor for "Global Governance" at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Reto Steiner is the representattive of Switzerland in the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government (GIE) at the Council of Europe. He has been advisor to various governments in Europe and abroad and also served in a city and a state parliament.

Position Vice-President (2025-2028)

Institution ZHAW Winterthur (Switzerland)

Country Switzerland

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