Alexander Bechtel is responsible for blockchain and digital currencies in the strategy department of Deutsche Bank. He also researches and publishes articles on the topics of (unconventional) monetary policy and digital currencies at the University of St. Gallen. He has also worked as an external consultant at the European Central Bank and spent a research period at Stanford University. On top of that, he has produced one of the leading …

We need a flexible, resilient system that is also useful beyond the Covid period – especially with a view to climate change – mobility expert Dr Philine Gaffron is convinced of this. She teaches and researches at the Institute for Transport Planning and Logistics at the Hamburg University of Technology. Her focus is on the social and environmental impacts of (urban) transport, the interdependencies of transport and space, concepts for …

For Amelie Deuflhard, artistic director of the international performance and arts venue Kampnagel in Hamburg, the city is always also a stage. There are many examples of this, from participatory art projects in Hamburg’s HafenCity to the interim use of the gutted Palast der Republik in Berlin. Born in Stuttgart, she read romance languages, history and cultural studies in Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen and Montpellier before moving to Berlin for many …