Biography
Dr. Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Rector of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy. He also serves as Fellow at the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology at Stanford University, and is the founder of the Quantum Social Lab at the TUM Think Tank.
Before joining TUM, Urs was Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School and from 2009-2021 Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he remains a member of the board of directors. Previously, he held a SNF Professorship at the University of St. Gallen while also serving as Director of the Research Center for Information Law. With a Landon H. Gammon Fellowship, Gasser graduated with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and with a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen.
In addition to his responsibilities at TUM, Gasser is a regular advisor to the OECD and UNICEF, among others. He served on the German Digital Council appointed by Angela Merkel, as a member of the Colombian President’s Commission of Experts on AI, and chairs Thailand’s International Policy Advisory Panel on AI. He was also a Visiting Professor, among others, at KEIO University Japan, Singapore Management University, and the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
His interdisciplinary research focuses on societal and regulatory implications of emerging technologies, including VR/AR, AI, and quantum technology. His latest book is Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI (Princeton University Press, 2024, with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger). Urs has been an RQT Fellow since 2023.
