Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Kaehler has been Co-Director of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Health program since August 2020. Previously, he was managing partner of Patientenprojekte GmbH, where he was responsible in various contexts for the effective communication of health-related information and the creation of structures for patient-centered care. From 2011 to 2015, the health scientist and social...

Dr. Daniel Schraad-Tischler is Director of the Sustainable Social Market Economies program. He specializes in the fields of innovation, startups, sustainable business activities and political governance. Since joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2008, he has managed and further developed projects in various areas, including the labor market, social security and indicator-based comparisons of the...

Torben Schütz is Senior Expert at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, specialising in European Security Policy. His work focuses on German and European security and defence policy, as well as military capabilities and defence industrial issues. Prior to joining Bertelsmann, he was a Research Fellow at the Defense AI Observatory at the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg,...

Thomas Schwab, Senior Expert for European Economics at the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Europes Future program, specializes in economic policy analysis, with a particular focus on territorial inequalities. He has authored and co-authored several studies on economic cohesion, particularly within the context of the green and digital transitions based on innovative, data-driven research methods to...