Jessica Breaugh is a Senior Lecturer ESCP Business School, Berlin Campus. She teaches in the field of business and society, specifically corporate social responsibility and ethics. Her background in Psychology, Politics and International Affairs, and Public Management has resulted in multidisciplinary research interests in particular the motivations surrounding giving back to society.
Her current research focuses on the role of people management in government digitalisation (DigiLot), and the relationship between tech companies and public sector organisations (GovTech). She has published her work in several highly ranked journals, including Government Information Quarterly and Public Management Review. She has previous worked in the TROPICO project funded by Horizon 2020 and the ERC funded project, RefMig. She sits on the editorial board of Public Personnel Review.
Before joining ESCP in 2022, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Hertie School appointed at the Centre for Digital Governance and the Centre for Fundamental Rights. She holds a PhD from the Hertie School granted in 2020. During her PhD studies she had a research stay at Utrecht University. She has previously worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada in Ottawa, Hungary, the UK and Germany first in the field of International Program Evaluation and then International Human Resources.