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Patrizia Nanz | |
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Occupation | President of the European University Institute |
Patrizia Nanz (born 9 July 1965 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a political scientist and an expert in public participation and democratic innovations.[1] She has provided expertise to businesses, state agencies, and governments in various European countries.
She was appointed Vice-President of Germany’s Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) on 1 February 2021,[2] where she also leads the Collaborative Governance Lab (CO:LAB).[3] She currently serves on the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).[4] As of 15 March 2024, she is President of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.
Until 2021, Patrizia Nanz was scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) [5][6] in Potsdam; professor of transformative sustainability studies at the University of Potsdam;[7] and co-chair of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030, an interdisciplinary platform for research and dialogue to support implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Germany.[8] She is founding director of the Deutsch-Französisches Zukunftswerk (Franco-German Forum for the Future), established under the Aachen Treaty.[9][10] In January 2019 she was appointed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as a member of the High-Tech Forum, which advised the German government on its High-Tech Strategy 2025 until 2021.[11] Since 2002 she has held a professorship in political theory at the University of Bremen.[12] From 2013 to 2016, Patrizia Nanz was head of the research area "Culture of Participation" at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen.[13] She is the founder of the European Institute for Public Participation (EIPP)[14] and in 2009 was a co-founder of Participedia, a global collaborative wiki platform for democratic innovations.[15] She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Forum for Democracy, hosted annually by the Council of Europe.
Her main areas of research are public participation[16] and sustainability transformations (climate change, biotechnology, energy transition, final storage of nuclear waste), democratic theory (transnational governance and the European integration[17]), open government and innovation of administration.[18]