Dr. Elke Löffler is currently the Chief Executive of Governance International (www.govint.org), a nonprofit organisation assisting public and nonprofit organisations to implement good governance. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Bristol Business School (University of the West of England). Previously she was a staff member of the Public Management Service of OECD where she worked on performance and intergovernmental management. Prior to joining the OECD, Dr. Löffler did international comparative research on administrative modernization while at the Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV) in Germany. She has been a consultant for the World Bank, the OECD’s TDS Programme, SIGMA, the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) and the Federal Ministry of Defense, Civil Protection and Sports in Switzerland.

Ms Löffler holds a Ph.D. (with honours) from the German Post-Graduate School of Administrative Sciences of Speyer, a Master of Economics from Washington University of St. Louis (USA) and Master degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of Tübingen (Germany). Nationality: German.

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