Barbara Engels

Barbara Engels is Senior Economist for Sustainable Digitisation at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Cologne. After studying economics (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) in Berlin, New York and Barcelona, she worked in Tel Aviv and realised that Israeli companies are significantly more digital, flexible and agile than German ones. This was the initial spark for her research topic of digitisation. Among other things, she deals with data economy, digital markets and digital sovereignty. In the " Digitisation and Climate Protection" cluster, she is researching how digitisation must be designed to ensure that economy and society benefit sustainably and in an environmental friendly way.