Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker

Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker is one of the leading minds in cyber security and works as Scientific Director of the cyberintelligence.institute in Frankfurt am Main and visiting professor at the private Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia, which was founded by the Soros Foundation. Here he conducts research on topics at the interface of law and technology in cyber security, corporate strategy and digital resilience in the context of global crises, with a particular focus on Chinese and US IT law. Kipker is an advisor to the German Federal Government and the European Commission and a member of the Advisory Board of the Lithuanian cybersecurity unicorn NordVPN as well as in the BSI cyber security expert group for the space sector. He is also a reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2024, Professor Kipker was appointed to gematik's new Digital Advisory Board, the highest body in Germany that helps decide on the digitalisation of national health insurance providers. Dennis Kipker works voluntarily for the World Justice Project in the USA.

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