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  • Alexandra Bekker

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    bekka616@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Alexandra Bekker

    Profile

    Alex is a strategic designer and policy researcher. Her work focuses on understanding, critiquing and reimagining the ways social, legal and economic systems exercise power. She currently works at Dark Matter Labs, where she leads work on caring infrastructures, deliberative democracy, and new commons. Previously, Alex worked at the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and nonprofits in social innovation and human rights. 

    Degrees Held

    MSc Strategic Design and Management, The New School

    MA Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Sciences Po

    LLM Law and Politics of International Security, Vrije Universiteit 

     

     

    Recent Publications

    Kaur, M., Buisman, H., Bekker, A., and C. McCulloch (2022), "Innovative capacity of governments: A systemic framework", OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, No. 51, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/52389006-en.

    Research Interests

    Feminist/care ethics, design justice, posthumanism

    Current Courses

    Ethical Decisions & Leadership
    PUDM 4041, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Ethical Decisions & Leadership
    PUDM 4041, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Ethical Decisions & Leadership
    PUDM 4041, Spring 2024

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