Sonja Stuchtey is a serial start-up entrepreneur, advisor & investor, ethical tech advocate, and a sector–shaping social entrepreneur in Germany. After several years as strategic consultant with Booz. Allen & Hamilton in areas such as digitization and telecommunication, she has modernized science teaching with her award-winning social franchise Science-Lab. Her books are bestsellers.
As Senior Advisor, Investor, and Board Member she supports Tech and Civic Tech start-ups. Her focus lies on responsible business models, long-termism, ethical tech and inclusive metrics. Building coalitions is part of her DNA, i.e. in the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center which encourages global tech collaborations, evaluates good tech choices as well as measurable policy alternatives to pursue the responsible use of new technologies and data.
She has been initiator and founding member of Alliance4Europe, the analytical and intelligence backbone for an ever growing body of civil society groups and movements within Europe, and still serves the institution as Chair of the Supervisory Board.
Sonja has studied Busines Administration at WHU (Germany), IAE (France), UC Berkeley (USA), International Education at Bath University (UK), Data Sciences at UC Berkeley (USA) and holds a PhD of TU Munich (Germany). She is married and the mother of six children.