Dr. Henriette Litta

Dr. Henriette Litta has been managing director of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation Germany since 2020. She is committed to bringing good ideas from civil society into the socio-political arena and making an impact. In 2021, Henriette joined forces with the organizations AlgorithmWatch, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, Reporters Without Borders, and Wikimedia Germany to found the F5 alliance for public-interest digital policy, which aims to give civil society a stronger voice. Henriette is a member of Agora Digitale Transformation, the Mobility Data Advisory Board of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport, the Advisory Board of Transparency International Germany, the Advisory Board for the data portal umwelt.info of the Federal Environment Agency, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering. From 2022 to 2024, she served as a member of the Advisory Board for the German Federal Government’s Digital Strategy.

Henriette is a political scientist. She studied and conducted research in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Singapore, with scholarships from Fulbright, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the German National Academic Foundation. After graduating, she joined the Hertie School of Governance shortly after its establishment and held relevant positions there for several years, including Head of Curricular Affairs and personal assistant to the dean. Before joining the Open Knowledge Foundation, she spent seven years as head of executive office at the Expert Council for Migration, a policy advisory institution founded by civil society.