Dr. Michaela Ölschläger heads the „Innovation and New Markets“ division at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. Her areas of responsibility include the financial and IT sectors, start-ups as well as science policy and transfer. She completed her PhD at the Chair of Economic Policy at the University of Hamburg (dissertation: “Milieus, Lifestyles and Innovation”). Before that, she studied business administration (Dipl.-Kffr.) in Hamburg and agricultural sciences (B.Sc.) in Göttingen.