Hannes Grassegger is an award-winning investigative reporter, economist and technologist. His pioneering work explores the impact of digital networks, social media and AI on the way we live – as individuals and as a society.  

In 2021 Hannes started Spatz – a digital publishing platform for village journals.

Hannes is the author of "Das Kapital bin Ich" (Kein & Aber Verlag, Berlin/Zürich, 2014), on why we should own our personal data.

Hannes is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Experts Community and served on the Global Future Council on Media, Sports and Entertainment 2020/2021. He was a fellow at the Sandberg Institute at Gerrit Rietveld, and a Swiss fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Hannes teaches at the University of Basel.

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