Robert Finkeldey

- Full-time PhD Scholarship at the UTS
-- funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: business and democracy: profit, power and participation (DP240101783)
-- expertise: Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Citizenship, Political Corporate Social Responsibility, Grand Challenges (climate change), Social Movements Organisation, Whistleblowing, Multi-stakeholder Initiatives
-- focus areas: commercial AI in government, multi-national corporations, mining/ extractive industries, BigTech, renewables, democratic principles (electoral, egalitarian, deliberative, participatory, liberal), electoral systems, human dignity
- Designated Country Expert for Australia for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). The V-Dem Institute at Gothenburg University studies the health and qualities of government and publishes the academically highly regarded Democracy Index. Benchmarking Australia against other countries worldwide.
- Former scientific assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany)
- MBA from Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany)
- BA in economics from Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany)
- Former Vice President, Head of Business and Market Strategies at Gartner APAC and Japan