Anke Hassel

Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin, where she teaches courses including The Policy Process: Employment & Welfare and Policy-Making: Actors, Institutions & Processes. She previously served as Scientific Director of the WSI at the Hans Böckler Foundation (2016-2019) and currently holds membership on the German Federal Government's High-Tech Forum since January 2019.

Her research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial nations with particular expertise in labor market institutions, social partnership systems, and comparative welfare state development. Recent work examines the digital transformation of work, green transitions in emission-intensive sectors, and the evolving relationship between growth models and social cohesion. Her scholarship bridges theoretical analysis with practical policy engagement through sustained collaboration with social partners and government bodies.

Hassel's publications reveal a consistent focus on institutional adaptation to economic transformation, with recent articles analyzing platform work fissures, inflation dynamics in coordinated market economies, and the role of social dialogue in just transitions. Her work demonstrates how traditional corporatist arrangements adapt to digitalization and climate challenges while maintaining social stability.

• Fellow Economist 2024 (European Commission)

Hassel has maintained extensive policy advisory roles including chairing the expert group on Workers' Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe (2015-2018), serving on the German Bundestag's fact-finding committee on growth and prosperity (2012-13), and contributing to the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015-17). Her research is frequently commissioned by governmental and foundation bodies seeking evidence-based analysis of labor market transformations.