Dr Tobias Knobloch

Studied Latin and Philosophy to become a teacher, but then worked in IT business for several years. After the web 1.0 bubble had burst, I wrote a doctoral thesis on thought experiments and computer simulations. After that I worked as a freelance political consultant, for instance evaluated the participatory budget of Cologne, and co-founded the feedback application startup "reqorder".

For the following five years I was deputy head of the PR division of the German Federal Ministry for Ecomomic Cooperation and Development. From October 2015 I now lead an advocacy project on open data and privacy issues in Germany at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (www.stiftung-nv.de/opendata).

Spare time is filled with family, reading and writing, sports and arts.