Edward Strasser is the CEO and co-founder of the Innovation in Politics Institute.
Edward’s professional career includes positions in politics and public relations. He has been a partner at Skills Group, a leading Austrian PR firm, and previously served as a staff member for the Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party in Austria. He has initiated several political projects, including a press agency focused on migrant issues, and he was co-founder of respekt.net, an internet-based crowdfunding platform for civil society projects. Before that, he was General Manager of the Austrian Institute for Applied Telecommunications, a lecturer at the University of Vienna’s Department of Communication, and Secretary-General of the Austrian Association of Public Relations Professionals for several years.
The focus of his work at the Institute is partnerships between governments, businesses, and civil society. In these „Mission Partnerships”, public institutions, companies, and other organisations collaborate to solve a concrete task that none of them could solve on their own.
