Dr. Swantje Westpfahl is the director of the Institute for Security and Safety. As a key point of contact with international institutions, she is the ISS’s representative at the United Nations OEWG on ICT in the context of international security, the Head of the European Initiatives Task Force of the EE-ISAC, and takes part in several cyber security working groups in the WEF. Her main areas of expertise are establishing a security culture, capacity building and didactics (due to her studying to become a teacher), cyber security in international relations, and AI (due to her Ph D in Computational Linguistics). Most of all, she's dedicated to empower her team in order to strenghten Cyber Security around the world. Swantje Westphal won the prize Peter-Roschy-Price for outstanding PhD dissertations