About

Thomas Lohninger was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Net politics was his hobby until he worked intensively as a policy advisor for European Digital Rights (EDRi) on the EU law on net neutrality. Thomas was one of the driving forces behind the www.savetheinternet.eu campaign and has a strong work focus on net neutrality, data protection and mass surveillance. He has been active at epicenter.works since 2010 and has been the association’s managing director since 2014. He also writes on Netzpolitik.org, is a regular guest on the podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik and a non-residential fellow at the Center of Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Since 2019 he has been on the board of the European umbrella organisation of 45+ net policy NGOs (EDRi) and since 2024 he has chaired the governance working group of the UN dpi-safeguards initiative, is a member of the SPRIN-D jury for the German eIDAS wallet and the Ad-Hoc Technical Advisory Group of the EU Commission for eIDAS.