Peter Huppertz graduated from the University of Applied Science, Mittweida with a Diploma in Media Technology (2003). Working at the University of Education in Freiburg he took part in the post graduate course Educational Media provided by the University Duisburg-Essen and finished with a Master of Arts in Educational Media.


Prior to joining the ICAR Peter was working as a Research Assistant at the University of Education in Freiburg. There he conducted training courses on creating and using media in educational scenarios, developed software environments to support learning and worked on a research project involving the use of interactive video for teacher trainings. During his studies Peter worked for several IT companies, advertising agencies and movie post production companies.

Peter is the Team Leader IT and eLearning at the Basel Institute on Governance. He is responsible for managing and overseeing the program of work of the Basel Institute on Governance’s IT unit, which covers e-learning, websites, visual design, IT support and other related products and services for the Basel Institute. Peter plans and develops eLearning courses in cooperation with internal and external experts, manages the development of the Institute's Basel Open Intelligence tool and is responsible for the IT related development of the Basel AML Index. Furthermore, he oversees, coordinates and manages IT tools, internal web and IT projects and web and print products of the Institute.