Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann

Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann is research and founding director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). She is also the scientific director of the research programme The evolving digital society. She is a political scientist and professor of Internet Policy at the FU Berlin and also conducts research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) on the topics of global governance, regulation of the internet and digital transformation. In addition, she is also head of the WZB project group ‘Politics of Digitalisation‘ (formerly ‘Policy Field Internet’).

Furthermore, Jeanette Hofmann is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts and a member of various policy advisory committees. In 2017, she contributed to the founding of the German Internet Institute, the ‘Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society’. There, she leads two research groups as Principal Investigator on the topics of democracy and digitalisation and quantification and social regulation. Together with the Weizenbaum Institute and with the research group ‘Politics of Digitisation’ at the WZB, HIIG is in regular exchange through joint events and publications. In her current publications, Jeanette Hofmann researches the relationship between digitalisation and democracy, the emergence of a policy field of network policy in Germany and the role of trust in the global regulation of the internet.

Prof. Hofmann is a member of the Leopoldina’s Scientific Commission Digitised Society. From 2010 to 2013, she was an expert in the Enquete Commission ‘Internet and Digital Society’ of the German Bundestag and actively participated in the UN World Summit on the Information Society and the Internet Governance Forum.