Miriam Meckel
Professor and Entrepreneur
Miriam Meckel is a full professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, specializing in communication management and technologies and co-founder of ada Learning GmbH. She has extensive experience in science, journalism, and politics, including as Harvard Fellow, editor-in-chief of WirtschaftsWoche, and State Secretary for Media and International Affairs in North Rhine-Westphalia. Her research focuses on technological transformation and innovation. She publishes widely both academically and journalistically.
During her fellowship, she wants to explore how AI can be used to strengthen democracy. In cooperation with technology and science representatives, she wants to create the basis for citizen dialogues moderated and analyzed by AI.
Selected Awards
2025 | Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, the oldest European award for innovation
2021 | Ernst Schneider Special Award for her startup ada
2016 | John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University
2008 | Eisenhower Fellowship of the United States
Selected Publications
2024 | with L. Steinacker, Alles überall auf einmal: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Welt verändert und was wir dabei gewinnen können, Reinbek: Rowohlt.
2022 | with V. Suter, M. Shahrezaye, and L. Steinacker, “AI Suffrage: A Four-Country Survey on the Acceptance of an Automated Voting System,” Proceedings of the Hawaiian International Conference on System Science (HICSS), http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79623.
2022 | with G. Kostka and L. Steinacker, „Under Big Brother’s Watchful Eye: Cross-Country Attitudes Toward Facial Recognition Technology,” Government Information Quarterly 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2022.101761.