Dr Sandro Gaycken is director of the Digital Society Institute at Berlin’s private university ESMT. He has published five monographs and more than 60 publications on cybersecurity, is an Oxford Martin School Fellow, on the committee of MIT’s conference series on cyber defense and cyber norms, an EastWest Institute Senior Fellow, a Senior Fellow in the German Council on Foreign Relations, an IEEE permanent reviewer and editor-in-chief of the Springer Science series „Springer Briefs in Cybersecurity". As governmental advisor, he developed the German cyber foreign policy strategy, testified numerous times in the German parliament and conducted many parliamentary dialogues. He was instrumental in the German-Chinese No-Spy agreement, the White House USTR effort to mitigate Chinese industrial espionage, and in IAEA and G8 efforts to control nuclear cybersecurity. In cyber military affairs, Sandro was a part of the German MoD’s cyber defense white book process, moderated the interdepartmental cyber coordination efforts, serves as expert witness in NATO military cyber counterintelligence cases and as director in NATO’s SPS Program, developing and implementing national cyberdefense strategies in the Middle East region. As industrial advisor, he conducted nine major industry studies, ranging from smartgun or semiconductor security assessments to strategic industry development issues, advises large German cyber investors such as ammer!partners and Allianz ventures, developed Allianz’ cyber risk assessment methodology and a buyer’s guide, listing 170 external criteria to assess the security quality of an IT-product, for the German DIHK and the SME community. Sandro also founded the high assurance security company "Secure Elements", offering unhackable embedded computers. Devoted to an open discourse and public enlightenment, he writes frequent op-eds in leading German newspapers like Handelsblatt, FAZ, Süddeutsche or DIE ZEIT, and comments regularly on cyber matters on main media outlets such as Tagesschau, Heute, NTV, N24, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times, Wired, Vanity Fair or Al Jazeera.