Dr. Andrea M. Schneider on the foundations of the free society

Andrea M. Schneider is Deputy Head of Staff for Policy Planning in the Office of Germany’s Federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Her area of work is the development, implementation, and management of strategic innovation projects, e.g. the Chancellor’s ‘Dialogue on Germany’s future’, the Government’s Strategy 'Wellbeing in Germany ', the Chancellor’s ‘International German Forum’, and Government Foresight utilization and skill-building. The project ‘effective government’ which started in 2015 promotes the use of empirical methods of social sciences as well as behavioral insights within the...