Julian Nida-Rümelin is one of the most renowned German philosophers and public intellectuals. He became known to a wider public as State Minister for Culture in Gerhard Schröder's first cabinet. Nida-Rümelin studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and political science in Munich and Tübingen. After a guest professorship in the USA, he worked as a professor at the Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen and then held a chair in philosophy at the University of Göttingen for ten years. From 1998 to 2002, Julian Nida-Rümelin moved into cultural policy, first as Cultural Affairs Officer for the City of Munich, then as State Minister for Culture in the first Schröder cabinet. Nida-Rümelin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Research Centre for Digital Transformation and has been Deputy Chairman of the German Ethics Council since 2020. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The renowned philosopher is the author of numerous books that deal with topics from practical philosophy and political theory. For his monograph on Digital Humanism: An Ethics for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, he was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the best political book of the year. In 2016, the Bavarian state government awarded him the medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe. In 2019 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit. Julian Nida-Rümelin has been an honorary doctor of the University of Trieste since 2014. Julian Nida-Rümelin is also in popular demand as a speaker. He speaks at small and large companies and financial institutions on topics such as leadership responsibility, risk ethics and employee motivation.