Digital Society Institute expands with Michael Hange as new external affiliate

Until his retirement in 2015, Michael Hange was the president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for six years. Prior to this, he was permanent representative of the IT director in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and vice president of the BSI from 1994 to 2009. Since the founding of the BSI in 1991, he held leading roles in the area of cryptology. Michael Hange has been a member of the supervisory board of Bundesdruckerei since April 2016.

The Digital Society Institute (DSI) was founded at ESMT Berlin to support the economic and social constitution of digitalization through strategic research and development. It is supported by leading global companies. With a focus on cybersecurity and data protection, DSI is creating strategies for politics, business as well as society, and is developing innovative digital technologies for new approaches to the security of digitalization.

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ESMT Berlin is a leading global business school with its campus in the heart of Berlin. Founded by 25 global companies, ESMT offers master, MBA, and PhD programs, as well as executive education on its campus in Berlin, in locations around the world, online, and in online blended format. Focusing on leadership, innovation, and analytics, its diverse faculty publishes outstanding research in top academic journals. Additionally, the international business school provides an interdisciplinary platform for discourse between politics, business, and academia. ESMT is a non-profit private institution of higher education with the right to grant PhDs and is accredited by AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, and ZEvA. It is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all its activities and communities.