The Foundation Staff

Member of the Executive Management, responsible for Finance and Administration.

Background: Following studies in Business Administration, Henning Otto worked in the Corporate Finance department of a large German bank. Prior to his present position, he was member of the Management Board of a firm in the food industry.

Member of the funding team "Challenges – for Academia and Society"; supervising funded projects in the realm of classical and ancient studies and at the intersection of analog and digital sciences.

Education: Magister and PhD in Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, and Ancient Oriental Studies (Göttingen and Thessaloniki); PhD thesis "Midas and the Kings of Phrygia – Studies on the History of Phrygia and Its Rulers from the 12th to the 6th Century B.C."

He previously held positions as administrative assistant at the department of information technology of the University Medical Center Göttingen and as scientific advisor for the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII).
 

Subject Areas:

• Administrative Science
• Classical and Ancient Studies
• Law

Funding Initiatives:

• Corona Crisis and Beyond – Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
• Niedersächsisches Vorab
• Symposia and Summer Schools