Alexander Szanto served as Director at Christ & Company Consulting from March 2023 to May 2025 and was responsible for the ‘Digital Economy’ division. He was responsible for various consulting segments in the fields of cybersecurity, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. His work focused on strategic and political communication as well as strategic management. After working for several years in the private sector in Germany and abroad as well as in state politics in North Rhine-Westphalia, he was previously already engaged as a Research Fellow at BIGS from 2017 to 2023. In this role, he worked on national and European projects on various public, security policy and economic challenges relating to cybersecurity and disinformation.