Prof. Dr. Andreas Balthasar

Foto Andreas Balthasar

Titular Professor of Political Science, Swiss Politics and Policy Evaluation

T +41 41 226 04 26
F +41 41 226 04 36
andreas.balthasar@unilu.ch

Interface Policy Studies Consulting
Seidenhofstrasse 12 , 6003 Luzern
Appointments upon request

CV

Andreas Balthasar studied economics and history of economics at the University of Bern and then worked as a research associate at the Research Centre for the History and Sociology of Swiss Politics at the University of Bern. He completed a habilitation (post-doctoral qualification for research and teaching at professorial level) at the Faculty of Economics & Social Science at the University of Bern in the spring of 2007, and was named titular professor of political science at the University of Lucerne in 2010. 
Balthasar founded Interface Policy Studies Research Consulting in 1991 in Lucerne. Interface specializes in evaluation of policy measures and programs. Balthasar’s main areas of research are policy analysis and evaluation research. In addition, he concentrates mainly on Swiss social and health policies. 

Andreas Balthasar was a lecturer in the theory and methods of evaluation research at the Faculty of Law and Economics and at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern from 1987 to 2007. In addition, he has been involved in the MAS in Evaluation at the University of Bern since 2002. Since 2010 he has been a titular professor at the Seminar for Political Science and since 2013 additionally at the Seminar for Health Research and Health Policy at the University of Lucerne. He was President of the Swiss Evaluation Society SEVAL from 2000 to 2008. From 2013 to 2020, he was president of the steering group of the National Research Program 71 "Control of Energy Consumption". He is a faculty member of the Swiss School of Public Health and a member of the steering committee of the platform "Smarter Health Care - Future of Health Services Research".

 

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