Karl Lofgren

Dr Karl Löfgren is Head of School and Professor (Public Administration) in the School of Government. Prior to taking up his current post with Victoria University of Wellington, he held academic positions with Copenhagen University (Denmark), Malmö University (Sweden) and Roskilde University (Denmark). He has been teaching in a number of subfields of political science including comparative politics, public administration/management, public policy and European Union studies. Current research interests include electronic government and service delivery, democratic audit of new forms of local democracy, utilisation of knowledge in policy, and policy implementation/organisational changes/reforms in public sector organisations. He has been involved in a number of national and international research projects/networks including being prime investigator for a Nordic research network (2009-2012) and two European COST-actions.