Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus

Since January 18th of 2019 Prof. Kristina Sinemus has been Hessian’s first Minister for Digital Strategy and Innovation.

Prior to that, Prof. Sinemus was the managing director and founder of the consulting agency „Genius“ since 1998. The company is a spin-off of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Genius sees itself as a service provider at the interface of science, business and society and advises ministries, companies, associations and federations. It implements communication strategies and controls dialogue processes.

In 2011, Kristina Sinemus was appointed Professor of Public Affairs at the Quadriga University in Berlin, an interdisciplinary private university. Their professorship is currently suspended.

From 2004 to 2019 she was a honorary member of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar. In 2009 Prof. Sinemus was the first woman to become Vice President and in 2014 the first female President of a Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Hesse.

The Minister studied Communication Science, Education, Biology and Chemistry and received her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1995.

Prof. Dr. Sinemus was born in Darmstadt, billed as „the city of science“ and grew up in the „Waldecker Land“, a rural area in Northern Hesse.