User:Antonin Wagner

Antonin Wagner has a Masters in Theology from the University of Fribourg (1965) (Switzerland) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich (1971). From 1973 to 1974 he did his post-doctoral studies at the Center for Research in Economic Development at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA). Since the spring term of 2000, Antonin Wagner has served, first as an Affiliate Professor and since 2005 as a Visiting Professor of Management on the faculty of the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy of the New School in New York. In 2014 The New School conferred him the title of an Emeritus Professor of Management

Previously, Professor Wagner has served a quarter of a century (from 1975 to 1999) as the Dean of the Zurich School of Social Work. From 1976 to 2002 he also had an appointment as a professor of public finance and social policy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. For almost three decades he has been involved in the Swiss national welfare debate. From 1988 to 1997 he chaired a research program on the Swiss welfare state, sponsored by the Swiss National Fund for Research and from 1992 to 2002 he was President of the Swiss Association of Social Policy. He still serves as a consultant to the Department of Social Security of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS). Professor Wagner also has considerable exposure in the international sphere of academia. From 1984 to 1991 he chaired the European Regional Group of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). In 1992 he was a founding member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) and then chaired this organization from 1996 until 2000. Previously, he held the offices of Treasurer and Secretary of ISTR and was the Academic Chair of the first two international conferences in Pécs (Hungary) and Mexico City. He held visiting professorships at the University of Geneva (1989) and in the U.S. at the Florence Heller School of Social Welfare (Brandeis University) (1987) and at The Johns Hopkins University Institute of Policy Studies (1993).