KDZ Institution

KDZ

Chair

President

Matthias Stadler

Mayor of St. Pölten

Vice President

Stefan Schmuckenschlager

Mayor of Klosterneuburg

KDZ

Members of the Executive Board

Chairman of the board

Thomas Weninger

Secretary General, Association of Austrian Cities and Towns

Deputy chairperson

Angelika Flatz

CEO Wiener Wohnen Kundenservice GmbH, City of Vienna

Cashier

Wolfgang Figl

UniCredit Bank Austria AG

Secretary

Matthias Tschirf

Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs

Member of the Board

Tina Blöchl

Vice Mayor of Linz

Member of the board

Martin Pospischill

Municipal Department of the City of Vienna

Member of the Board

Christian Kemperle

Head of Section "Public Service and Administrative Innovation" at the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport.

KDZ

Accountants

Sabine Platt

Municipal Department of the City of Vienna

Thomas Wolfsberger

City of St. Pölten

KDZ

Full Members

Verena Ennemoser

City of Graz

Hans Hornyik

Local councillor, City of Baden

Andrea Kaufmann

Mayor of Dornbirn

Wolfgang Müller

Deputy Magistrate Director, Department Director, City of Vienna

Leopold Ott

Municipal Administration Director, City of Neulengbach

Michael Ritsch

Mayor of Bregenz

Reinhold Russinger

Chamber of Labour, Vienna

Andrea Schwaighofer

City of Innsbruck, Head of the Magistrate's Office

Andreas Spahlholz

City of Vienna

Anna-Margaretha Sturm

Community Management Academy of Lower Austria

Josef Taucher

SPÖ Klub

KDZ

Advisory board

Elisabeth Alber

EURAC research, Bolzano

Peter Biegelbauer

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Geert Bouckaert

Public Governance Institute - KU Leuven

Stefan Bruckbauer

Bank Austria

Peter Bussjäger

University of Innsbruck, Institute for Public Law, Political and Administrative Science; Institute for Federalism

Franziska Cecon

University of Applied Sciences, Linz

Thomas Döring

University of Darmstadt

Michael Getzner

TU Vienna, Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy

Marc Gross

KGST Cologne

Peter Grünenfelder

Avenir Suisse

Martin Haidvogel

City of Graz

Florian Hauser

(Hons), Policy Officer, DG, NEAR, European Commission

Gerhard Hammerschmid

Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Alfred Heiter

Federation of Austrian Industry

Dennis Hilgers

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Public and Nonprofit Management

Klemens Himpele

CIO City of Vienna

Petra Hirschler

Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Spatial Planning

Michael Holoubek

WU Vienna, Institute for Austrian and European Public Law

Mario Holzner

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Thomas Kostal

WU Vienna, Institute for Public Sector Economics

Michael Kremser

City of Vienna, Municipal Department 5 – Financial Affairs

Andreas Ladner

University of Lausanne, Institute of Public Administration

Stefan August Lütgenau

Foster Europe, Foundation for Strong European Regions, Eisenstadt

Verena Madner

WU Wien, Department of Socioeconomics, Research Institute for Urban Management and Governance

Vice-President of the Austrian Constitutional Court

Heidrun Maier-de Kruijff

Austrian Association for Public and Social Economy, Vienna

Markus Matschek

Chief Executive Director, Office of the Carinthian Land Government

Ines Mergel

University of Konstanz, Department of Political and Administrative Sciences

Renate Meyer

WU Vienna, Institute for Organisation Studies

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

University Nottingham, School of Politics and International Relations

Bernhard Müller

Urban Forum

Ulf Papenfuss

Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Chair of Public Management & Public Policy

Marga Pröhl

Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

Sebastian Schäffer

Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe

Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger

WIFO Vienna

Mag. Tobias Schweitzer

Chamber of Labour, Vienna

Kathrin Stainer Hämmerle

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Erich Thöni

University of Innsbruck

Mag. Mario Wiedemann

Bertelsmann Foundation, Livable Communities

Jurgen Willems

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institut Public Management and Governance

Kelmend Zajazi | Executive Director of NALAS

The long-term cooperation with KDZ means a lot to us at NALAS. In KDZ we found a peer that fully understands who we are.

Isabelle Verschuren | Federal Public Service Policy and Support (BOSA), CAF correspondent of Belgium

In the last years Belgium has planned and organised many different CAF activities (e.g. CAF training, Certification of CAF label) together with KDZ.

Josep Medrano | Director of Strategic Planning and Taxation, City of Barcelona

For the City of Barcelona, the collaboration with KDZ through the European "Cities for Sustainable Public Finances (CSPF)" has reached a qualitative advance.

Services

Public Management Consulting

Our focus

Financial Management and VRV 2015
Organisational and Administrative Development
Control and Management Systems
Citizens and Customer Service
Strategy and Innovation Development

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European Governance and Urban Policy

Our focus

International Know How Exchange and Capacity Building
Urban Policy in Europe
CAF-Centre and Reform of Public Administration
Open Data
Knowledge Management and Networking

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Public Finance and Federalism

Our focus

System of Financial equalisation and Federalism
Transparent public finances
Financing and management of public services

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