Thorsten Käseberg is the Head of Unit, Competition and consumer policy, general competition issues of digitalization Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany.
Dr. Thorsten Käseberg, a lawyer and economist, has been serving as a civil servant since 2007 in different functions in the area of economic policy. He currently heads the unit "Competition and Consumer Policy" in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. One focus of his work is the digital transformation and its potential and challenges for regulation. He is also an official of the European Commission (on leave), where he served in the Directorate-General for Competition (2009-2011).
Dr. Käseberg has lectured at Humboldt University Berlin and published in particular on economic and regulatory issues, including the book Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Cumulative Innovation in the EU and the US (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012). He was educated at the University of Bonn, Humboldt University Berlin, the London School of Economics and New York University.
