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Founder and Director at Hypercerts Foundation

Founder and Director at Hypercerts Foundation

Holke Brammer is a political economist working to strengthen collective action through open technology. As founder and director of Hypercerts Foundation, he leads the development of open infrastructure for impact funding and public goods resource allocation. He was previously a research scientist for public goods funding at Protocol Labs, worked at Yunus Social Business and Boston Consulting Group, and led Open Social Innovation efforts in Germany with ProjectTogether. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Career: 10

Founder and Director

Hypercerts Foundation

Feb 2023 - Present

Pro bono support

ProjectTogether

Mar 2022 - Present

Research Scientist - Public Goods

Protocol Labs

Apr 2022 - Oct 2023

Strategy Lead

ProjectTogether

Apr 2020 - Feb 2022

Pro bono support

ProjectTogether

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

Consultant

The Boston Consulting Group

Oct 2016 - Feb 2020

Manager Corporate Social Businesses

Yunus Social Business

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

Read about my reflections from a year as a BCG secondee at Yunus Social Business:

Research and Teaching Assistant

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Jun 2013 - Jun 2016

● Programmed simulations to solve agent-based models/complex adaptive systems for projects researching social dilemmas and the long-run stability of democracies and dictatorships ● Administered large-scale email survey experiment and provided statistical analysis for a project on the effects of corporate social responsibility on political activists ● Analyzed citation networks to examine the impact of research articles over time ● Prepared lesson material and graded exams/projects for courses on non-market strategies & political risk, and negotiations & conflict management

Research and Teaching Assistant

University of Maryland

Jan 2010 - May 2010

● Contributed to building a game-theoretical model to investigate why some advanced democracies do much better than others in making sure the basic needs of their citizens are met ● Instructed students in office hours for a course on game theory

Junior Research Assistant

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin

Dec 2008 - May 2009

● Supported research concerning the financial regulations in the EU and the internal reporting and decision-making of the delegation of the European Parliament to the European Convention

Publications: 2

Holke's Blog1 article

Just a draft

holke.leaflet.pub

Nov 2025
Publication1 article

This is a loose post

Nov 2025

Credentials: 1

HERO Supporter

HERO Circle

Nov 2024

Education: 4

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

2011 - 2016

London School of Economics and Political Science

Master of Research

2010 - 2011

University of Maryland College Park

Education

2009 - 2010

Freie Universität Berlin

Vordiplom

2007 - 2009

Languages: 2

English
German

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