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Sören Gigler is Senior Digital Policy Officer at the Digital Innovation and Blockchain Unit in DG Connect at the EC. He is working on access-to-finance for digital innovations with a focus on disruptive technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, supercomputing and 5G. From 1997-2016, Sören worked at the World Bank as Innovation Program Coordinator, Senior Governance Specialist and Economist. At the World Bank's Innovation Lab, he led Open Government Data, Citizen Feedback, Social Accountability and Mapping for Result programs. He was Visiting Associate Professor for Political Economy at Georgetown Univ. He holds a Phd from the LSE and MS in Economics from Univ. of Munich.