Dirk Nicolas Wagner is dean of the faculty of Business Economics & Management and Professor of Strategic Management at Karlshochschule International University. He studied economics and management at Université de Fribourg (CH) and Royal Holloway University of London (UK), graduating as a MBA in International Management and Dr.rer.pol. in the area of New Institutional Economics. Since the 1990s, he has been dealing with questions related to the Economics of Artificial Intelligence and he regularly publishes with the Zukunftsinstitut in Frankfurt a.M.. Prior to joining Karlshochschule, he served in various senior management and board member positions in the technical services industry in Europe.