Carla Hustedt
Carla Hustedt is the director of the “Centre for Digital Society” at the Mercator Foundation. Her work focuses on the impact of digitalization on democratic structures. Since the start of the program in 2021 she has build new institutions, developed and funded more than 50 projects with partners from academia, thinktanks and civil society and […]
MdEP Damian Boeselager
Damian Boeselager is a newly-elected Member of the European Parliament. Together with an Italian and a French, Damian co-founded Volt, a movement that is active in all European countries and ran for the EP elections in 2019 in 8 countries with one party program. In the European Parliament, Damian focuses on creating a real European […]
MdB Dorothee Bär
Dorothee Bär was born in Bamberg in 1978. She is a political scientist and a Member of the German Parliament since 2002. Before winning her parliamentary mandate she was a journalist for various daily newspapers, radio stations and news agencies. From 2009 to 2013 she was Spokeswoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group for family, senior […]
Dr. Ulrike Franke
Dr. Ulrike Franke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Her areas of focus include German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence on geopolitics and warfare. Dr. Franke has published widely on these and […]
Ronja Kemmer, MdB
Ronja Kemmer studied Economics in Germany, Sweden, and Italy, and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2014. In 2025, she was elected Vice Chair of the CDU/CSU Bundestag group for Digitalization, Public Sector Modernization, Research, Technology, and Space. Since 2025, she has also been a deputy member of the Digitalization and Public […]
Thomas Heilmann
Thomas Heilmann is an Internet entrepreneur and fully qualified lawyer. Before he went into politics, he founded many companies, such as an advertising agency, which was later merged into Scholz & Friends, one of europes largest independent communication network. Heilmann became known as a co-founder, start-up financier and small shareholder of various start-ups (including mytoys, […]
Mario Brandenburg
Mario Brandenburg holds a master’s degree in business informatics. He was recruited in 2009 by Europe’s largest software company, SAP SE, where he worked until 2017, first in various positions ranging from Development to Sales. In 2017, he became a member of the German Bundestag for the Liberal Democrats (FDP). He served as spokesman for […]
Dr. Stefan Heumann
Dr. Tina Klüwer
Tina Klüwer has spent many years strengthening artificial intelligence and emerging technologies as a managing director and senior executive at the intersection of business, science, and public policy. With a background in AI research and entrepreneurship, she has helped translate cutting-edge technology into real-world impact. She is also a book author and an internationally active […]
Mario Brandenburg
Mario Brandenburg has a master degree in business informatics. He was recruited in 2009 by Europe’s largest software company SAP SE, where he worked until 2017, first in various positions as a working student, and later as a Cloud Integration Architect and consultant. Since 2017, he has been a member of the German Bundestag for the Liberal Democrats […]