Andras Molnar
Senior Digital Policy Manager & Director of Online Safety at the TUM Think Tank
Position: Senior Digital Policy Manager & Director of Online Safety at the TUM Think Tank
E-Mail: andras.molnar(at)tum.de
Room: B.460
Andras Molnar is Senior Digital Policy Manager & Director of Online Safety at the TUM Think Tank. He leads projects on digital policy, including artificial intelligence, data governance and privacy, cybersecurity, and children in the digital environment, providing evidence-based policy analysis and guidance to stakeholders. Andras also directs the Think Tank’s online safety portfolio.
In addition to his role at the TUM Think Tank, Andras is an Affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he lectures and develops research on digital transformation, focusing on how it can be shaped to serve economic and societal priorities.
Prior to his appointment at the TUM Think Tank, Andras served for nearly seven years as a Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he focused on the digital economy and provided evidence-based policy analysis and guidance to the governments of member countries on artificial intelligence, data governance and privacy, online safety, children in the digital environment, and cybersecurity. His contributions were recognised at the G7, by the White House, and adopted by the G20 Leaders.
Andras publishes extensively. He has authored and co-authored several books, reports, and articles, including the OECD Digital Economy Outlook, numerous Digital Economy Papers, and Digital Policy Briefs. He also played a key role in launching the Global Forum events on Digital Security for Prosperity, which has become one of the most influential multilateral platforms on cybersecurity.
Earlier in his career, Andras held roles at the United States Congress, the United Nations, and the European Parliament.
Slots are available upon request via email to andras.molnar(at)tum.de.
Artificial Intelligence
- AI, data governance and privacy: Synergies and areas of international co-operation
- Enhancing access to and sharing of data in the age of artificial intelligence
Online Safety & Children in the Digital Environment
- Towards digital safety by design for children (recognised by the White House, featured in Politico)
- Transparency reporting on child sexual exploitation and abuse online (featured in Politico)
- OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment (recognised at G7, adopted by G20 leaders)
- Companion Document to the OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment
- Guidelines for Digital Service Providers
- Children in the digital environment: Revised typology of risks
- Protection of Children in a Connected World
- Combatting COVID-19’s effect on children
- Addressing the needs of children in the digital environment
- Digital Economy Outlook
Data Governance and Privacy
- The impact of data portability on user empowerment, innovation, and competition
- Data portability: Strengthening privacy, consumer protection and competition
- Data portability in open banking: Privacy and other cross-cutting issues
- Mapping data portability initiatives, opportunities and challenges
- Ensuring data privacy as we battle COVID-19
- Tracking and tracing COVID: Protecting privacy and data while using apps and biometrics
- One year later: Addressing the data governance and privacy implications of the COVID19 pandemic and the road to recovery
Digital Security