Senator Jörg Dräger Ph. D. (Cornell U) has been Minister for Science and Research in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg since October 2001. He is responsible for the ongoing reform of the higher education system in Hamburg. Senator Dräger started his own academic career in Hamburg, where he studied physics with a minor in business economics. He continued his physics education at Cornell University (New York), where he received both a Master of Science (foundation of quantum mechanics) and a Doctor of Philosophy (mathematical crystallography). Prior to his present position he worked as a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Frankfurt and as the Chief Executive Officer at the Northern Institute of Technology in Hamburg.