Prof. Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, M.B.A.

Claudia Loebbecke holds the Chair of Media and Technology Management at the University of Cologne. In 2005-2006, she was elected President of the global Association for Information Systems (AIS), which named her AIS Fellow in 2012, and a 'Distinguished Member cum laude' in 2019. She is long-standing Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Honor Society 'Beta Gamma Sigma'.

Since 2025, she is Member of the EU High Level Groups (HLGs) on Policy Innovation, specifically the HLG on Accelerating Technology Transition (also 2011-2013) and of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Business School Advisory Board in Linz, Austria. In 2023, she became Distinguished Professor at Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India, and member of the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) in Berlin, Germany. In 2015, she was appointed as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Scientific Institute for Infrastructure and Communication Services ('WIK') and 'WIK Consult' (Board Member 2018-2022). 2021-2024, she was member of the Administrative Board of the Regional Public Broadcaster WDR ('WDR-Verwaltungsrat') and 2016-202 deputy member of the 'WDR-Rundfunkrat'. 2019-2022, she served as External Scientific Advisor to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) project 'KI.NRW' organized by Fraunhofer IAIS, 2016-2021 as Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Regulatory Issues of the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ('WAR der Bundesnetzagentur'), 2012-2020 Board Member of the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics; 2013-2016 'Board Member' and 'Division Head' of the 'European Academy of Sciences' (EURASC), and in 2015 Founding Scientific Director of the 'Grimme Research Institute at the University of Cologne'.

She serves as 'Honorary Board Member' of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), as 'Advisory Board Member' of Information Systems Research (ISR) and the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) as well as on several international editorial boards. Between 1997 and 2015, she was seven years Senior Editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and twelve years of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS).

Her previous employments include INSEAD (France), McKinsey & Co. (Germany), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong/PRC), Erasmus University (Rotterdam, NL), and Copenhagen Business School (DK). Later research stays brought her to the Sloan School/MIT (US), Bentley University (US), the University of New South Wales (Sydney, AUS), INSEAD (FR), London School of Economics (UK), LUISS University (Rome, IT), and University of Paris-Dauphine (FR).

She received a Master Degree (1990) and a Ph.D. (1995) in Business Administration, from the University of Cologne, Germany, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991) - the latter supported by a Fulbright Scholarship (1986/87) and a DAAD Scholarship (1990/91). From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she received the Executive Certificate 'Management and Leadership' (2013) and 'Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy' (2018). Also since 2018, she holds the title 'Certified Board Member' ('Zertifizierter Aufsichtsrat') awarded by the Steinbeis Business Academy in Berlin.

Her research focuses on business models, management and regulatory aspects concerning a wide variety of digital and content goods, as well as on the innovative use of new media, information and telecommunication technologies including artificial intelligence (AI).

She has published almost 300 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers and has contributed to the development of more than twenty in-depth case studies in eight different countries.

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