Max Senges (1978) works in Google's Policy Team in Berlin to liaise and collaborate especially with colleagues from academia and civil society in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He is passionately thinking and working on the crossroads between Internet politics, innovation, culture and philosophy of technology. In the last ten years he worked with academic, governmental, and private organizations, centering on knowledge ecosystems, e-learning, and Internet governance. Max holds a Ph.D. and a Master's Degree in the Information and Knowledge Society Program from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, as well as a Masters in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Berlin).