Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) has been Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH HPI since 2004 and was the founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam from 2017 - 2021. He is a C4 professor of computer science and heads the Department of Internet Technology and Systems.

Meinel is, among other things, a member of acatech, the National German Academy of Science and Engineering, Governor of the Technion in Haifa, member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards, visiting professor at various universities in Germany and abroad and was Programme Director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 - 2022.

With his team, he developed the first European MOOC platform openHPI in 2012 and has since offered interactive online courses for many thousands of learners on the openHPI platform.