Dr. Tim Stuchtey

Dr. Tim Stuchtey holds a degree in economics from the University of Münster and a doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin. He was initially a personal assistant to the President of the TU Berlin before working for a leading German business association in the field of economic policy. In 2001, he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he later became Head of the Presidential Department. At HU, Tim established the Humboldt Institution on Transatlantic Issues (HITI) and in 2007 moved to the American-German Institute (formerly the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC as Senior Fellow and Program Director Business and Economics.

In 2010, Tim became Executive Director of the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) in Potsdam. He leads national and international research consortia on civil security and conducts his own research in the economics of (cyber-)security. Tim is a regular columnist for Tagespiegel Backgroud Cybersecurity.