At this year's EGPA conference in Brussels, Sylvia Veit gave a presentation entitled "Top Civil Servants in the German Federal Chancellery 1949-2021" on September 8, 2021, in Permanent Study Group 17: Sociology of the State: Reforms & Resilience in the panel "Policy coordination at the Top: Questioning the role of political entourages and administrative Secretariat-Generals of the Executive."