Pascal Koenig is an assistant professor in Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the VU Amsterdam. His research deals with questions related to Artificial Intelligence and Governance. It examines how Artificial Intelligence changes forms of decision-making and steering in government and public administration; how governments and other stakeholders shape the societal adoption of the technology; and how citizens perceive and evaluate Artificial Intelligence uses in government.
Before working at the VU Amsterdam, Pascal was an advisor at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). In this role, he planned and consulted development cooperation projects in the field of digital transformation. Previous to his work as a practitioner, he was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, an interim professor at the Technical University Munich and a postdoctoral researcher at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and Goethe University Frankfurt. In his dissertation at the University of Freiburg, he studied what factors accounted for systematic differences in the strategic communication of governments during the financial crisis of 2008.
His work has been published in a variety of international journals, such as Big Data & Society, British Journal of Criminology, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology for Development, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Regulation & Governance, Sustainable Cities and Society, and West European Politics.
