Markus Weißkopf is the Executive Director at Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD). The initiative of Germany’s leading research and funding organizations, WiD brings science and societytogether and encourages dialogue between them. Before joining WiD in 2012, he served as the Director of the “Haus der Wissenschaft” (House of Science) in Braunschweig from 2007 to 2012and as a management consultant at Translake GmbH Konstanz. He holds degrees in politics and management from the University of Konstanz(Germany) and Madrid.