Prof. Boris Otto (born in Hamburg, Germany in 1971) has been director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund since 2017. Since 2013, he has held the Chair for Industrial Information Management at the TU Dortmund. He is also a member of the boards of directors of the Gaia-X, European Association for Data and Cloud, AISBL and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and chairman oft he board of directors of the Fraunhofer ICT Group.

After studying industrial engineering in Hamburg, Otto did his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart under Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, former president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He habilitated at the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Information Management, where he founded and managed the Corporate Data Quality competence center. His career path also included PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. Furthermore, Otto was a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA.

Otto’s research focuses on the fields of industrial information management, business and logistics networks, and methods for the design of digital business solutions.