Meet our team

(on maternity leave)

Dr. Jamie Saunders is a strategic security consultant, providing security and risk management advice to a range of large corporations and governmental organisations.  He is a Fellow of the James Martin School at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Digital Society Institute at the European School of Management and Technology.

Karsten Geier is an Envoy at Germany’s Permanent Representation to the European Union and Senior Cyber Diplomacy Advisor to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.  He has held a variety of diplomatic postings, including as Cyber Coordinator in the German Federal Foreign Office.  In this position, he has worked intensively with international partners, in particular the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the EU.

Nils Brinker is a former researcher at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin. Previously he researched systematic approaches and the generalization of cyber security law within the project ITSR.sys. ITSR.sys was an interdisciplinary research project funded by the BMBF with the goal to evaluate the current state of cyber security regulations and to develop a cross-sectoral model for a general cyber security law.

Shravana Kumar is working as a Research Associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and formerly worked as a Research Associate at the DSI. He has completed his PhD in transport economics and logistics at Technische Universität Dresden and the Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Sciences. Previously he worked as a teaching assistant and taught courses on economics, transport and logistics at the Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Sciences.

Līga Rozentāle is working in consultancy, advising various public and private stakeholders on strategy and business development in the areas of digital economy, security, and defence. In a recent role Rozentāle was Senior Director for European Government Affairs (Cyber & Defence) at Microsoft, having previously served as the first Latvian cyber diplomat for Latvia at the EU, NATO, and UN.