Markus Krahnke
I did not observe power structures. I worked in them. In parliament. In a corporation. On the side of senior executives. Three perspectives on power, first-hand.
Political power
German Bundestag: OSCE desk officer.
Bundestag committee of inquiry into party donations (Chancellor Helmut Kohl): legal trainee.
Hamburg State Parliament: office manager for members of the governing parliamentary group.
Corporate power
Vattenfall, one of Europe's largest energy companies: senior executive responsible for the company's strategic representation of interests towards politics and society in Hamburg and Northern Germany.
Head of Regional Coordination Hamburg/Northern Germany · Government Relations, Regulatory Affairs, Issues Management · reporting line to the Executive Board.
Central coordination of the remunicipalisation of Hamburg's power grid · political coordination of the decommissioning of nuclear power plants.
Additional perspective
Elected substitute member of the senior executives' committee of the Vattenfall holding.
Negotiation experience with works councils in my own line function, on the employer's side.
Education
Law degree (Diplom-Jurist), MBA · Master's thesis: micropolitics in organisations.
Independent consultant · founder of OFFICEPOLITICS®.
How I work
I ask the questions that often go unasked internally. I name dynamics that are sensed but rarely spoken about clearly. I explain how decisions are really made, which interests are at play and where the political risks lie.
I work without an agenda of my own. The only point of reference is your position in the system.
You decide. You act. You carry the responsibility. My job is to make sure you do so with a realistic picture of the situation.
Press & media
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