**Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller-Lietzkow** has been President of HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) and Professor of Economics and Digitalization since 2019. In 2025, he was re-elected for a second term until 2031 and appointed affiliated professor at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Previously, he held the Chair of Media Economics and Media Management at Paderborn University (2008–2019). His research focuses on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, data science, wireless technologies, smart cities, future mobility, digital policy, and innovation.
He is founder and spokesperson of the **Hanseatic Wireless Innovation Competence Center (HAWICC)**, an interdisciplinary research network bringing together HCU, TU Hamburg, DFKI and further academic and industry partners in major publicly funded projects.
Müller-Lietzkow is a member of the German Rectors’ Conference Standing Commission on Digitalization and has advised federal and state policymakers for many years, including as a member of the German Bundestag’s Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Since 2014, he has also served as spokesperson of the digital policy association **cnetz e.V.**