Prof. Dr. Tim Stuchtey

Prof. Dr. Tim Stuchtey holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Münster, Germany and a doctorate in the same field from the Technical University of Berlin. He commenced his career as a personal assistant to the President of the TU Berlin before assuming a role at the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations specializing in economic policy. In 2001, he relocated to the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he subsequently assumed the role of Head of the Presidential Department. At Humboldt, Tim established the Humboldt Institution on Transatlantic Issues (HITI) and in 2007 relocated to the American-German Institute (formerly the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, where he assumed the roles of Senior Fellow and Program Director of Business and Economics.

In 2010, Tim assumed the role of Executive Director of the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) in Potsdam, Germany. In 2024 he also became adjunct professor at the School of Conflict and Security Studies at the Indian National Institute of Advanced Studies. In April 2025, Tim Stuchtey was appointed to a professorship for the ‘Economics of Cybersecurity’ at the German University of Digital Science. He oversees national and international research consortia on civil security and conducts his own research in the field of (cyber-)security economics and security policy. He is a regular columnist and contributor in the German media and a sought-after speaker on security and economic policy.