PROF. DR. GISELA SCHMALZ
studied Philosophy and Economics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University.
She has more than 20 years of experience as a strategy consultant and as a professor of Strategic Management, Leadership and Business Ethics for international Master´s and MBA-students at various universities in Germany.
She co-founded Respublica e.V., Berlin, did research as a member of Ethisch Ökologisches Rating, Frankfurt/Main, and on global internet governance while working with Google Collaboratory, Berlin. She designed and supervised the implementation of mediadb.eu, a database on media and tech companies. Since 2021, she has headed the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence. at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie.
Gisela Schmalz is an independent researcher in the field of digital technologies and AI. She conducts research from a social science and philosophical perspective and is especially interesteed in the power structures generated by technological innovations. Her non-fiction books and public lectures deal with the development of new technologies and their impact on individuals, corporate and business structures and society.
AFFILIATIONS
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (DGPhil), Leipzig.
- Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik (IFM), Köln.
- Projektgruppe Ethisch Ökologisches Rating (EÖR), Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.
- Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen (ERG), Freie Universität Berlin.
- Mentoring-Programm, Freie Universität Berlin.
BOOKS
Mein fremder Wille – Wie wir uns freiwillig unterwerfen und die Tech-Elite kassiert („My Alienating Will“). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. 2020.
Das kleine Buch der großen Fragen („The Little Book of Big Questions“). München: Goldmann Verlag. 2018.
Cliquenwirtschaft – Die Macht der Netzwerke: Goldman Sachs, Kirche, Google, Mafia & Co. („Clique Economy”) München: Kösel Verlag, 2014.
No Economy – Warum der Gratiswahn das Internet zerstört („No Economy – Why the freebie culture destroys the World Wide Web“). Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 2009.
Der Richtungsstreit in der frühen amerikanischen Wirtschaftslehre und der Einfluss der Deutschen Historischen Schule (“Opposing Factions in Early American Economic Theory and the Influence of the German Historical School”). Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, 1998.