Lutz Mache

Lutz Mache has been working as a Public Policy and Government Relations Senior Analyst for Google Germany since 2014. As a Visiting Fellow for Das Progressive Zentrum he works in the programme Economic and Social Transformation. Prior to working with Google, he accompanied the firm as an external adviser and worked for an SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) member of parliament. He studied Public Administration at the University of Potsdam and Aarhus Universitet. Interested in the interaction between the digital and political sphere, he published his master thesis on negativity bias and attribution of responsibility on Twitter. He is actively involved as a volunteer with the digital policy association “D64 – Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt e.V.”