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Gregor is passionate about direct democracy and empowerment. He is head of Change.org Germany and co-founder of ParliamentWatch.org, an independent platform which gives German citizens the possibility to ask public questions and receive public answers from their members of parliament over the Internet. More than 90 percent of all members of parliament participate in this online dialogue. Storing more than 200.000 citizen questions and more than 180.000 answers, it is the biggest voters' memory in the world. The platform has been successfully exported to Luxembourg, Austria, Ireland, France, Greece and Tunisia. In 2008, Gregor received the Ashoka Fellowship for social entrepreneurship. He was appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010 and received the „Democracy Award“ from NDI in 2013. He is one of the three initiators of a successful referendum campaign for a more direct electoral law as well as a transparency law in his home state Hamburg. In April 2014 he published his first book on how to update the political system by direct democracy and thus restore trust in politics. Gregor holds a Bachelor degree in International Relations and a Masters degree in Political Sociology both from the London School of Economics (LSE).
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