Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is co-author (with Kenn Cukier) of the current business bestseller “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think.” Acclaimed for his ground-breaking research into the role of information in the networked economy, he is a visionary thinker about information innovation and governance, data privacy, memory and forgetting in a digital age, electronic government, and – of course – big data.

He is Professor of Internet Governance & Regulation at Oxford University’s Internet Institute and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science & International Affairs at Harvard University.

Viktor has published eight books, including the awards-winning “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” and is the author of over a hundred articles and book chapters on the information economy. He has been featured in publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, BBC, Le Monde, El Pais, Die Zeit, and WIRED.