Christian Schuster is Professor of Management and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.

He researches the management of public sector organizations, with a particular focus on ‘government analytics’: the use of data to measure and improve how public administrations and civil services work.

He has collaborated in this research with numerous international organizations and governments, and co-founded some of the world’s leading government analytics initiatives, including the Global Survey of Public Servants, the Latin American Public Employment and Pay Indicators, the Survey of National Statistical Office Employees, and the Government Analytics Fellowship. He has also led a range of large-scale RCTs of management interventions in government, including ESRC grants on the effectiveness of digital leadership training and employee surveys and coaching in government.

His research has been published in more than 100 academic and policy publications, and his latest book – The Government Analytics Handbook (World Bank Publications, co-edited with Dan Rogger) – has been downloaded over 50,000 times.

He has won the 2018 Haldane Prize for the best article published in Public Administration, and a World Bank Bureaucracy Lab Innovation Award in recognition of his contributions to improving public administrations.

Prior to coming to the Blavatnik School, he was a Professor of Public Management at University College London, a Visiting Research Scholar at Sciences Po and the Inter-American Development Bank, the LSE Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an Economist with the World Bank. He received his PhD in Government from the LSE. For further details, visit his personal website.