Helene von Schwichow

Researcher & Project Manager

Resume

Helene von Schwichow joined the Chair of Policy Analysis at TU Munich as a researcher and project manager of the "Digitainability: Promoting responsibility & implementing innovations on a project basis" project in February 2022.

Previously, she was the founder and managing director of the independent think tank MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture (2018-2021) where she conducted research and advised organizations and policy makers on equitable tech. In this context, she published a research report on the experiences of women in the platform economy on behalf of the Third Equality Report of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and worked with numerous project partners such as the Federal Ministry of Justice, CityLAB Berlin or the Goethe Institute. Please visit (https://motif-institute.com/) for full portfolio and publications. For her work with MOTIF, she was recognized as a list maker of the „30 under 30“-list in by Forbes magazine DACH the tech category and as a finalist for the European Commission's New European Bauhaus Prize. 

From 2019 - 2020, she also worked as a network coordinator for the European Hub of the global internet research network "Network of Centers" at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

She studied in Berlin and Paris and holds a master’s degree in Communication in Social and Economic Contexts from the Berlin University of the Arts.