Yuan-Dong Sheu Memorial Lecture Series

Guest Scholar：Prof. Joachim Jens Hesse

Ford-Monnet-Professor of European Institutions and Comparative Government in the University of Oxford (until 1997)
Founding Director of the European Centre for Comparative Government and Public Policy (until 2001)
Chairman of the International Institute for Comparative Government and European Policy (ISE), Berlin

Joachim Jens Hesse studied economics, law and political science at Berlin, Göttingen, Kiel and Köln Universities (1961 - 1966). Postgraduate research at New York University and Harvard University (1967 - 1968). Research Associate at the Kommunalwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum Berlin (1968 - 1972). Thereafter, he was appointed Professor of Administrative Science and Public Policy at the Universities of Konstanz (1973 - 1976), Duisburg/Düsseldorf (until 1983), the Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer (Post-Graduate School of Administrative Sciences) (until 1989), Oxford (since 1989) and the Free University of Berlin. He has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe Bruges, Belgium (1987 - 1990), and other European as well as American universities; Fellow of several Centres for Advanced Study. Hesse acted, furthermore, as Founding Director of the Rhine-Ruhr-Institute for Social Research and Public Policy (RISP), Duisburg/Düsseldorf (1980 - 1984), the Centre for European Studies, Nuffield College, Oxford University (1991 - 1994), and of the European Centre for Comparative Government and Public Policy, established by the three Berlin Universities. Hesse also acts as Senior Consultant to the OECD (since 1970), the European Union (since 1988), the United Nations (since 1991), the International Labour Office (since 1992), and the World Bank (since 1995). He is member of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation.

Main areas of research: Comparative government; public sector reform in comparative perspective; public management; European politics; the governmental systems of the Federal Republic of Germany, other Western industrialised countries, and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; processes of federalisation and regionalisation within unitary and federal state systems.

【 Lecture 1 】

• Topic：The European Union in crisis — where to go from here?
• Time： 2007, March 28（Wed）13:20-15:10
• Location：International Conference Room, College of Social Sciences, NTU (21, Hsu-chow Road, Taipei)
• Moderator: Professor Yi Yuan（袁易教授）

【Lecture 2】

• Topic：A New Public Management? Public Policy within the European Union and its Nation States
• Time： 2007, March 29（Thu）13:20-15:10
• Location：Conference Room 1, College of Social Sciences, NTU (21, Hsu-chow Road, Taipei)
• Moderator: Professor Thomas C.P. Peng（彭錦鵬教授）
• Discussants: Professor Giin-tarng Hwang（黃錦堂教授）, Professor Yu-ying Kuo（郭昱瑩教授）, Professor Chen-dong Tso（左正東教授）

Contact Persons：
Mrs Wang Chenyuan (王辰元)（NTU Department of Political Science） Tel：（02）2341-6169.

Sponsor：

National Securities and Finance Group Foundation (NSFG Foundation)

updated 2007-03-13, 11:18