Shervin Haghsheno

Shervin Haghsheno (born 1975) is a German civil engineer, economist and politician from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). He is a university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the Institute for Technology and Management in Construction as Managing Director.

Research Shervin Haghsheno conducts research in the areas of project management in the construction and real estate industry, construction process management, cooperative project management models, lean construction, digitalization in construction and conflict management in the construction and real estate industry. He has published widely on these topics. Since 2018 he has been Vice Dean of the KIT Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geosciences and Environmental Sciences.

In addition, Shervin Haghsheno is involved in various professional associations and committees. In 2014, he was a founding member of the German Lean Construction Institute - GLCI eV and has been chairman of the board of the GLCI since then. From 2016 to 2021 he was a member of the board of the MKBauImm association - Mediation and Conflict Management in the Construction and Real Estate Industry eV. From 2017 he was chairman of the association. Since 2020 he has been a member of the management and advisory board of the IPA Center - Competence Center for Integrated Project Management. He has also been a member of the executive committee of the iddiw Institute of the German Real Estate Industry eV since 2016. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the specialist journal since 2016.

Politics According to a Spiegel report, Haghsheno has voted for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) since his naturalization 25 years ago. In the summer of 2023, he first contacted Sahra Wagenknecht and offered his support. He positions himself for this party, particularly in economic policy.