Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. At Oxford, his research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Viktor is the author of over hundred articles and book chapters on the economics and governance of information. He has also published eleven books, including the international bestseller “Big Data”  (co-authored with Kenneth Cukier), and the awards-winning “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” with Princeton University Press.

He is a frequent public speaker, and sought expert for print and broadcast media worldwide. Among others, his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist,  Le Monde, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and WIRED. He is also on the boards of foundations, think tanks and organizations focused, and advises governments, businesses and NGOs on new economy and information society issues.