Christian Rauch is an entrepreneur and consultant who works with executives to expand their futures thinking capacities and explore new ideas for a sustainable tomorrow. He is founder and director of STATE, a Berlin-based initiative that creates programs between art and innovation to rethink the questions that shape our future and facilitate creativity without borders.
He serves as a member of the Communication Science Expert Bank at the German Academy of Science and Engineering, is part of the curatorial board of the BIOTOPIA museum and jury member of the German Creative Industries Award Kultur-und Kreativpiloten of the BMWi. As a fellow of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, he is committed to promoting sustainable leadership as part of a global network of changemakers.
Christian studied physics in Berlin and Sydney and received his PhD in renewable energy research from Aalto University Helsinki before he led the knowledge and technology transfer activities at a German nanotechnology research institute.
At CEDEP, Christian invites leaders to harness the power of radical imagination to explore the uncharted space of possible futures.