Markus Siewert

Managing director

Markus Siewert serves as Managing Director of the TUM Think Tank at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy / TUM since April 2022. His academic journey has taken him to institutions including Goethe University Frankfurt, FU Berlin, American University, Georgetown University, and the European University Institute in Florence. His work focuses on the governance and negotiation processes shaping digital transformation, with a particular interest in AI, public sector innovation, and digital politics. At the TUM Think Tank, Markus leads efforts to create dynamic interfaces between science, policy, industry, and civil society. The aim: to foster the responsible development and use of emerging technologies.

Related Projects

AI4POL

AI4POL is a Horizon Europe project designed to equip European regulators and policy makers with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively govern and regulate AI technologies.

Project

Public Policy Impact Program

With the Public Policy Impact Program, we support student initiatives with a political mission in achieving their goals - by providing funding, facilitation and networking opportunities.

Fellowship

Tracing the evolution of digital policy

Project

The Urban Digitainability Lab is a transdisciplinary lab focused on empowering municipalities to drive the sustainable and digital transition.

Lab

Related News

Noteworthy

European network for digital sovereignty

Europe’s digital future needs cooperation, courage and coordination. We’re proud to be one of the inaugural members of the newly launched European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty.

18. Nov 2025

Recap

GovTech Series

The GovTech Series at the TUM Think Tank was a monthly program dedicated to learning from practice, bringing together innovators, policymakers, researchers, and students to explore how technology can transform the public sector.

01. Sep 2025

Partnership with the International Digital Self-Determination Network

As part of this collaboration, members of the HfP contributed to a co-organized conference on digital self-determination in June 2022 in collaboration with the Directorate of International Law (DIL) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs..

05. Jun 2025

Recap

Putting Users in Control of Their Social Media Experience

At the TUM Science Hackathon 2023, a team of computer science students took on the challenge of developing a social media platform that provides users with enhanced transparency and control over the content shown in their feed. They discussed what kind of information users need to better understand how content is personalized on social media and drew up ways for users to modify the content shown to them. Based on these ideas, they designed their prototype ‘openLYKE’ – a social media platform which implements additional features for users to tweak the underlying recommendation algorithm.

06. Jun 2023

Related Outputs

Policy Brief

Inverting the Brussels Effect: What the EU Can Learn from Latin America in Digital Governance

This policy brief offers insights into what the EU can learn from its counterparts in LAC. Authored by the HEMISPHERES project members – a three year collaboration funded under the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet 2024 Networks Program, which aims to foster cooperation between European and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) academic and research centers, policymakers, private sector and civil society.

15. Sep 2025
Publication

AI Sandboxes – A Key Tool for Adaptive AI Governance

As AI increasingly shapes decision-making in our daily lives, traditional governance frameworks struggle to keep pace. How can we ensure regulation keeps up with technological change?

25. Jul 2025
Publication

Digitainability Competency Framework for Local Government

Shaping the sustainable–digital transformation

02. Apr 2025
Publication

Of Pioneers and Potentials

Transformation of the Public Sector with GenAI

16. Oct 2024
Report

A Nation-Wide Experiment

The fifth report presents some preliminary findings on the effects of the 9-Euro-Ticket on mobility behavior in relation to selected socio-demographics from the analysis of the tracking data collected during April 2022 and September 2022.

18. Apr 2023
Report

A Nation-Wide Experiment

The fourth report presents results from the third survey wave with a focus on the stated and observed changes in mobility behavior and an experimental design testing the willingness-to-pay for different alternatives as successor to the 9-Euro-Ticket.

18. Apr 2023
Report

A Nation-Wide Experiment

The third report presents results from the second survey wave with a focus on the stated and observed changes in mobility behavior and several questions related to the willingness-to-pay for different alternatives as successor to the 9-Euro-Ticket.

18. Apr 2023
Report

A Nation-Wide Experiment

The second report presents results from the first survey wave with a focus on the sample overview as well as the attitudes of citizens towards the introduction of the 9-Euro-Ticket. It also gives a first outlook into the socio-demographics behind buying intentions.

18. Apr 2023