The ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Wolfram von Heynitz, Head of Cyber Policy Coordination Staff in the German Federal Foreign Office.
Wolfram von Heynitz is the Head of the Cyber Policy Coordination Staff in the German Federal Foreign Office. His previous positions include a term as Research Commissioner of the German Foreign Office and a member of its Policy Planning staff, specializing in cyber policy, cybersecurity, and in the face of emerging challenges, the development of future strategies for the Foreign Office. He also served as Head of the Division for Foresight, in the Ministry’s EU Enlargement Division, as the Political Counsellor at the German Embassy in Tel Aviv dealing with the Middle East Peace Process and Israeli politics, in the private office of the Minister for European Affairs, and in the Office of the Federal President. In addition, he was posted as Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassies in Ireland and Azerbaijan. Before joining the Foreign Service, he graduated from the Université Paris-Sorbonne with a master’s thesis (Maitrise) on artificial intelligence and lectured in philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. He also studied in Marburg and at Harvard and holds degrees in both law and philosophy.