Carsten Siebert

is the chancellor and managing director of the Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin, a college for music and the humanities, and Pierre Boulez Hall, a Frank Gehry-designed performance space. Carsten is founding partner at cta, a Berlin-based film PR agency, and a digital consultant for maze pictures. Previously, he was executive director of Robert Wilson’s Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation in New York and a consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has lectured in philosophy and cultural sciences at, among others, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brown University, and the University of St. Gallen and regularly teaches at Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Center for Digital Cultures.