The Future Advisory Board

We accompany AI with experience, clarity, and responsibility.

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Pioneering for an intelligent future

Pioneering for an intelligent future

neuland.ai – Together for a sovereign, trustworthy and innovative AI future.

The Future Advisory Council of neuland.ai brings together leading minds from academia, business, politics, ethics, medicine and society. As an independent, interdisciplinary body, it supports the development and use of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe – critically, constructively and with foresight.

neuland.ai – Together for a sovereign, trustworthy and innovative AI future.

The Future Advisory Council of neuland.ai brings together leading minds from academia, business, politics, ethics, medicine and society. As an independent, interdisciplinary body, it supports the development and use of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe – critically, constructively and with foresight.

Interdisciplinarity

The Advisory Board brings together expertise from research, business, politics, public administration, ethics, theology and medicine. This ensures that the impact of AI on value creation, the world of work, social systems, education, public administration and social coexistence is considered comprehensively.

Innovative power

The Future Advisory Board analyses the opportunities and risks of AI, develops guardrails for an AI transformation that serves the common good and complies with regulations, and provides practical recommendations—for neuland.ai, businesses, policymakers and society.

Network & Impact

The members are exceptionally well connected and contribute their perspectives, contacts and multiplier impact to the strategic further development of neuland.ai and the public debate.

"AI is bringing lasting change to society, the economy and politics. How, why and to what end? Reflecting on this in an interdisciplinary way and building a bridge between theory and practice represents an exciting opportunity for a political scientist who sees himself as committed to the science of democracy as a practical discipline."

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Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg

Chair of the Advisory Board

Our mission

neuland.ai

Personal data. Secure space.

With the neuland.ai HUB, neuland.ai is developing a secure, scalable and data-sovereign AI platform “Made in Germany”. The Future Advisory Council ensures that ethical, legal and societal requirements are integrated from the outset (“Ethics by Design”). In this way, we enable companies, organisations and public institutions to use AI in a trustworthy manner.

Prof. Dr. Axel Ekkernkamp, MD

Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (until 30 June 2025), Emeritus Full Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Greifswald

Prof. Dr. Armin Falk

Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and Head of the BonnEconLab – Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research

Björn Franken, Member of the State Parliament (CDU)

Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Chair of Commission of Inquiry IV “Artificial Intelligence – For a smart state in the digitalised society” and spokesperson for digitalisation

Dieter Härthe

Chairman of the Executive Board of the Senate of Economy International and Honorary Chairman of the Senates in Germany and Austria, Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Senegal, and Managing Partner of härthe relations GmbH

Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Hennecke

Political scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Rostock with a focus on economic and skilled trades policy; combines academic perspectives with practical experience in politics and advocacy.

Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg

Political scientist at the University of Bonn and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences; Director and Spokesperson of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn

Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath

Director of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) at the University of Bonn

Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Sautermeister

Professor of Moral Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn and member of the German Ethics Council

Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit

Scientific Director at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin; active in AI research for four decades as a professor, research leader, company founder and business consultant in Germany, the USA and China

Prof. Dr Christiane Woopen

Heinrich Hertz Professor of Life Ethics at the University of Bonn and Founding Director of the Center for Life Ethics with the “House for Young Thinking”

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu

Professor of Industrial AI at the German University of Digital Science; Non-Executive Director of the Airbus Group; member of the supervisory boards of Siemens Energy, ZF Group and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), as well as Senior Advisor