Dominik Hierlemann is a Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a member of the foundation’s management committee, and an expert on European democracy and citizen participation. He has designed pioneering citizen participation projects in cooperation with German ministries and European institutions and facilitated many large-scale events with Presidents, European Commissioners and ministers. Dominik is a political scientist with a master’s in public policy and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences and the author of “Under Construction: Citizen Participation in den European Union”. He studied at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and at the Institut d'études politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France. For several years he taught and worked in Krakow, Poland, and in Sydney, Australia.