Dr. Christine Leitner is a Senior Advisor and co-founder of the Centre for Economics and Public Administration (CEPA) in London where she focuses on public sector innovation programmes. Since 2013, she has been a Senior Policy Advisor at the Austrian Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs. Before that she headed the Centre for European Public Administration at Danube University, Austria. From 2002 to 2010, she was the Director of the European e-Government Awards, a “lighthouse” project initiated and funded by the European Commission. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht.

Christine Leitner is a Supervisory Board member of the Estonian E-Governance Academy, an Associate of the Austrian Institute for European Law and Policy and the chair of a working group on gender and IT at the Austrian Computer Society. She has also worked with the European Commission, the OECD and UNDP on numerous occasions. She has served as a delegate to the EU Council, the European Pubic Administration Network, and the United Nations. She was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Public Sector Innovation and a member of the selection committees for the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge and national programmes for innovation in government in Dubai, Oman, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Abu Dhabi.

Christine has lectured at academic institutions, including the Kennedy School of Government, the University of Maastricht, ESADE, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Applied Sciences in Berne and Ludwigsburg, as well as the Schools of Public Administration in Vienna and Valencia. She is the editor and author of several publications on e-government and has been a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences.