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Drechsler holds degrees from Bridgewater College, the University of Virginia, the University of Marburg, and the German Post-Graduate School of Public Administration SpeyerSpeyer (English formerly Spires is a city in Germany ( Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. 50000 inhabitants, located on the Rhine river. It neighbours Worms and Mainz. History Archaeological data suggests that the site of the city was originally inhabited. Before coming to Estonia, he taught at Universities of Marburg, GiessenThe University of Giessen (Giessen officially called Justus Liebig-Universitat Giessen after its most famous member, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertilizer. The University of Giessen was founded in 1607 as a Lut, and Frankfurt am MainThe Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (commonly called the University of Frankfurt) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens' University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealt, all Germany, and as Visiting Professor in LundLund University or Lunds universitet is a university founded in 1666, in Lund, Sweden. The university has over 34,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses. History Although there were anterior academic institutions, a studiu, SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf. He has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia , as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German reunificationGerman reunification Deutsche Wiedervereinigung refers to the reunification of Germany from its constituent parts of East Germany and West Germany under a single government on October 3, 1990. An agreement to reunite both parts of Germany was reached on F, and, as an APSA CongressA congress is a gathering of people. Congress is the name of the main legislative body in a state that operates under a congressional system of government. A congress is different from a parliament in that legislative initiative is vested into it. In a coional Fellow, a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States CongressThe United States Congress is the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The structure and responsibilities of Congress are defined in Article One of the United States Constitution. The United States Congress is bicameral, meaning tha. He is the Vice Chairman of the executive board of Praxis, Estonia’s pre-eminent public policy think-tank, and a former member of the Innovation Policy Council of the Estonian Ministry of Economics.
Philosophically, Drechsler is a classical Hermeneutician, as one of the last students of the late Hans-Georg Gadamer. In Public Administration, Drechsler emphasizes the non-technocratic, non-managerial, "state sciences" approach that focuses on effectiveness rather than efficiency. In economics and public policy, he is a strong protagonist of the role of the state in economic growth and of innovation and industrial policy.
Drechsler received the 1997 Estonian National Science Award, Social Science category, the 2001 Alena Brunovskà Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration, the 2002 Oustanding Alumnus Award from Bridgewater College, where he also delivered the annual W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture, and in 2004, the Maarjamaa Rist, Estonia's Order of Merit.