Dr. Meike Walli-Schiek

Scientific Officer to the Director

Dr. Meike Walli-Schiek studied Geography and French at the Ruhr Universität-Bochum (RUB) and the Université du Littoral – Côte d'Opal in Dunkerque, France. On completion of her Master's degree in Urban and Regional Development Management in 2011 she wrote her doctoral thesis on Corporate Regional Responsibility at the Institute of Geography of the RUB. Meike Walli-Schiek was a research associate since 2009, from 2009 to 2011 at the Department of Cultural and Settlement Geography and from 2011 to 2015 in the Working Group Urban and Regional Economy. From May 2016 to December 2017 she was the manager of the head office of the corporate initiative Zukunft durch Industrie e.V. in Düsseldorf.

Since January 2018, Meike Walli-Schick has been working in the research team of the director of the Fraunhofer ISI in Karlsruhe. She contributes her expertise to the topics of innovation, digitalization, artificial intelligence, sustainability and futures science. Her aim is to connect the topics and situate them within society.