Henning Horn, M.A.
Head of Corporate Communications, Public and Governmental Affairs
Area of Interest:
- Intelligent connectivity and IT security
- Technology sovereignty
- Digital transformation
Biography
Henning Horn has headed the Corporate Communications, Public and Governmental Affairs division at the Institute for Technologies and Management of Digital Transformation (TMDT) at the University of Wuppertal since 2026. He is responsible for the institute’s strategic communications and public relations, works to further enhance its visibility, and fosters dialogue with the media, policymakers, the academic community, the business sector, and the TMDT partner network. As the central point of contact, he strengthens the TMDT’s positioning as a driving force for digital transformation.
He has been a research associate at the TMDT since 2018. Between 2023 and 2025, he led the Smart, Secure, and Sovereign Connectivity research division and served as co-head of the “Competence Center 5G.NRW” collaborative project, funded by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. His research focuses on the topics of digital and technological sovereignty, strategic autonomy, trustworthy intelligent connectivity, and IT security. Together with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), he has been organizing the “5G and IT Security” focus group since 2022.
Henning Horn studied political science and law at the University of Trier, specializing in international relations, security and defense policy, cybersecurity, and international law. In his master’s thesis, published by LIT Verlag, he analyzed the divergent motivations behind the development of German arms export policy between 1998 and 2015.
