Prof. Dr. Patrizia Nanz

Member of the Advisory Board of the TATIN Institute for Strategy Activation

Patrizia Nanz is Scientific Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Professor of Transformative Sustainability Science at the University of Potsdam and head of the European Institute for Public Participation (EIPP). Her research interests include ecological and social sustainability, the future of democracy and democratic participation, and the relationship between science and democracy. She studied philosophy and history in Munich, Frankfurt am Main and Montreal and completed her doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence.

Before joining the IASS, she conducted research at institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster (London) and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI). From 2002 she held a professorship in political theory at the University of Bremen. She has held visiting fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. She advises the German Federal Government as co-chair of the Science Platform Sustainability 2030 and as a member of the “Hightech-Forum”. Her numerous publications include a new edition of “Die Konsultative. Mehr Demokratie durch Bürgerbeteiligung”, co-authored with Claus Leggewie and published by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach.