Gregor Hackmack

• Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
  ParliamentWatch

Gregor Hackmack is Co-Founder of abgeordnetenwatch.de (parliamentwatch.org), an independent platform that gives German citizens the possibility to ask public questions and receive public answers from their members of Parliament over the Internet. Ninety-five per cent of all delegates participate in this online dialogue. The platform has been successfully exported to Luxembourg, Austria and Ireland. In 2008, Hackmack received the Ashoka Fellowship for social entrepreneurship. He is also one of three initiators of a successful referendum campaign for a more direct electoral law in the state of Hamburg. Hackmack holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in Political Sociology, both from the London School of Economics (LSE).