Alexander Türpitz

Worldwide, more than 200 million people are out of a job and looking for work. There are 100 million job positions open and waiting to be filled. Disconnect? The process unemployed people have to go through has been mainly unchanged for the past 20 years.

Alexander Türpitz

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Frankfurt

Dr. Alexander Tuerpitz is a member of the Center for Digital Government at Boston Consulting Group. He joined the firm in 2000 and has worked on projects in Europe, the US, and Asia. As of 2020 he works in the Frankfurt office and is the PS node for Germany. Previously he worked at the firm's Middle East office and was one of the lead partners of BCG's Riyadh branch. He is a core group member of the Technology Advantage, the Industrial Goods, Public Sector, Operations, and People & Organization practices, specializing in labor, employment, and social services.

Alex’s experience covers business strategy projects, new business developments, organization redesign, economic development, nationalization, and policy development for Middle East governments.

Skillful in making policy and implementing government programs, Alex is BCG's global leader for labor markets and welfare and a topic expert on employment and workforce, workforce policies, and government interventions. In his TED Talk on employment, Alex shared his success with a novel unemployment program in Saudi Arabia.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

PhD, laser physics, Heidelberg University
MBA, INSEAD
MA, physics, Heidelberg University
MA, physics, Uppsala University
BA, Heidelberg University

HONORS AND AWARDS

Member of Global Agenda Councils, World Economic Forum
Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation

Publications and Videos

Klimaneutrale Bundesverwaltung – Was jetzt noch für ein Netto-Null-Ziel zu tun ist

Die Bundesregierung hat sich gemäß §15 des Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetzes (KSG) von 2019 eine „klimaneutrale Bundesverwaltung“ bis 2030 zum Ziel gesetzt. Angesichts der akuten Klimakatastrophe und der Vorbildrolle der öffentlichen Hand sollte dieses Ziel zügig auf Netto-Null-Emissionen bis 2030 angehoben werden. Die Ziele sollten außerdem für alle Bundesbehörden und bundeseigenen Gesellschaften gelten und mit individuellen Reduktionspfaden für alle Organisationen untersetzt werden. Die organisationsspezifischen Reduktionsprogramme sollten zudem deutlich stärker zentral koordiniert, kontrolliert und unterstützt werden, damit eine zeitnahe und nachhaltige Umsetzung auch tatsächlich gelingt.

BCG Digital Government Citizen Survey 2020 – Deutschland 2021 – Was jetzt zu tun ist

Unsere neue Studie BCG Digital Government Citizen Survey 2020 – Deutschland 2021 – Was jetzt zu tun ist zeigt, wie Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Deutschland und 35 weiteren Ländern das digitale Angebot der öffentlichen Verwaltung nutzen und wie zufrieden sie damit sind. Wie Deutschland im globalen Vergleich anschneidet lesen Sie hier.

How to Restart in the Wake of COVID-19

With no precedent to guide them, governments must create a strategy for reopening economic and social life. A graduated plan, governed at the national level and implemented at the local level, offers flexibility and opportunities for learning.

Investing in Central Asia: One Region, Many Opportunities

Центральная Азия, регион, включающий Узбекистан, Казахстан, Таджикистан, Киргизию и Туркменистан, обладает существенным потенциалом для того, чтобы стать привлекательным направлением для инвестиций.

How to Supercharge Your National Digital Transformation

Most government-directed digital transformations fail in entirely predictable—and avoidable—ways. Don’t fall into these five traps.

governments-new-role-in-the-age-of-disruption-1694x950-tcm9-180959.jpg

Governing in the Age of Disruption

Technological change is disrupting everything, including the competitiveness of industries and the labor market. Governments must respond and embrace new strategies.

What Matters Most to Saudi Arabia’s Youth?

Who are young Saudis? What are their most important concerns? Have they been affected by regional events? Answers and opportunities emerge from a BCG survey.

From Growth to Well-Being: How Developing Countries Can Achieve Safe Workplaces

Occupational safety and health becomes an increasingly important topic for developing countries. Absence of proper national OSH system results in high fatality and injury rates, high costs associated with occupational accidents and increasing pressure from local population and international community to improve OSH situation in the country.

transform-employment-services-cvr-1694x950-tcm9-65472.jpg

How Governments and the Private Sector Can Transform Employment Services

Governments often stumble when it comes to tapping the private sector to help job seekers find employment, but five factors can make such partnerships successful.

Deep Expertise, Broad Experience