Congratulations to the Class of 2019!
The Hertie School today paid tribute to 210 master's degree graduates and 10 doctoral students at its annual graduation ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with around 1000 guests in attendance. Pascal Lamy, President of the Paris Peace Forum and former WTO Director General, held the commencement speech, and Hertie School President Henrik Enderlein presented the graduates with their diplomas.
As experts in public problem-solving, Hertie School graduates pursue careers in government, administration and international organisations, as well as in companies, foundations and non-governmental organisations. In the course of their studies, they deal, among other things, with governance and political decision-making in globally interconnected, multi-level systems. In a playful scientific analogy, Pascal Lamy offered his personal take on governance to the Class of 2019. Good governance delivers leadership to give direction to action, legitimacy for the support of those governed, and coherence for a steady course of the community, he said.
President Henrik Enderlein congratulated the graduates, saying: "Be smart. Be ambitious. Be responsible. If you understand the world around you, you can become architects of change."
The Class of 2019 is comprised of 132 Master of Public Policy (MPP) graduates and 78 Master of International Affairs (MIA) graduates. Around a third spent part of their two-year studies at one of the Hertie School’s 30 partner universities, while 32 completed dual degrees, for example at Columbia University in New York, the London School of Economics, or Sciences Po in Paris. The graduates come from 38 countries around the globe.
Find the profiles of current Hertie School graduates here.