Place of birth: Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg

Parentage: son of Erich Goetz and Erika Goetz (née Rall)

Education: Zwischenprüfung (intermediate degree) in Political Science and Italian, University of Tübingen, Germany 1984; courses in Political Science and Italian, University of Massachusetts, USA 1984–85; MSc, Politics and Government of Western Europe, London School of Economics (LSE) 1986; DPhil, ‘Intergovernmental Relations and State Government Discretion’, Nuffield College, University of Oxford 1991

Career: Klaus H. Goetz holds the Chair of German and European Government and Politics in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. From 1989 until 1991 he was a Research Fellow at the Post-Graduate School of Public Administration, Speyer, Germany. From 1991 until 1992 he was Research Officer at the Centre for European Studies at Nuffield College, Oxford, UK. Between 1992 and 2006 he was first Lecturer then Senior Lecturer and finally Reader in Government in the Department of Government at the LSE. Since October 2005, he has been Professor of Government in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Potsdam. He held visiting appointments as Visiting Chair (Lehrstuhlvertretung) in Comparative Government at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2000 and as Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tokyo in 2005. In March 2006, he was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. Since October 2006, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE. Between 1999 and 2001 Professor Goetz, was an occasional consultant to the World Bank, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Department on institutional policy in Central and Eastern Europe (comparative privatization policy, comparative civil policy). Since 1997, he has repeatedly acted as occasional consultant to OECD-SIGMA on institutional policy in Central and Eastern Europe (projects on public management profiles in Central and Eastern Europe, centres of government, parliamentary institutional capacity in Romania, and civil service policy in Bulgaria and Romania). Professor Goetz chairs a working team on ‘The Temporality of Europeanisation and Enlargement’, as part of EU-CONSENT. He is a member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, the Political Studies Association, the Association for the Study of German Politics and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies. Klaus Goetz is co-editor of the journal West European Politics (see url below).

Honours and awards: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence 2008

Publications include: Intergovernmental Relations and State Government Discretion: The Case of Science and Technology Policy in Germany 1992, Constitutional Policy in Unified Germany (co-editor) 1995, A New German Public Sector? Reform, Adaptation and Stability (co-editor) 1996, Germany (two volumes; The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government) (editor) 1997, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems (co-editor) 2001, Executive Governance in Central and Eastern Europe (editor; special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy) 2001, Germany, Europe and the Politics of Constraint (co-editor) 2003, Governing After Communism: Institutions and Policymaking (co-author) 2006; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Politik und Regieren in Deutschland und Europa, August-Bebel-Straße 89, 14482 Potsdam, Germany; Tel: +49 (0)331 977-3341; Fax: +49 (0)331 977-3291; Email: khgoetz@uni-potsdam.de ; Website: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/db/ls_regierungssystem_brd/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01402382.asp/ .