Alexander Hasgall is Executive Director of the LIBER Office. Before joining LIBER, Alexander headed International Funding Policy at the Swiss National Science Foundation (2024-2025), where he developed a global cooperation strategy and established and managed partnerships with international research funders.
From 2017 to 2023, he served as Head of the Council for Doctoral Education at the European University Association (EUA-CDE), working on doctoral education and research training. Alexander led the development and implementation of its strategy and activities and represented the European doctoral education community in European and global fora. His work resulted in several publications on doctoral education and the future of research training, including the vision paper Building the Foundations of Research. In addition, he was responsible for the area of research ethics and integrity at EUA.
Before this, he spent three years at the University of Geneva coordinating a consortium of all Swiss universities on reforming research assessment in the social sciences and humanities. The project led to one of the first comprehensive frameworks to address SSH-specificities in evaluation practices.
Alexander holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the University of Zurich and studied Philosophy and History at the University of Zurich and the Free University of Berlin. His doctoral research addressed knowledge politics, archives, and institutional memory in dealing with the last military dictatorship in Argentina. Earlier, he also served as a human rights observer in Guatemala.
He is active in diverse advisory roles, including membership on the Scientific Council of the TUM Graduate School, as a Trustee of the UK Career Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC/VITAE), and as an advisory board member of the Research Chair on Teaching and Learning at the University of Johannesburg.
As Executive Director, Alexander will coordinate the implementation of LIBER’s strategic actions and the management of the LIBER Office, and will advocate for LIBER members on a European level.