Colonel Sönke Marahrens

Colonel Sönke Marahrens, Branch Head, German Centre for Digitization, German Armed Forces in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science of University of the Armed Forces in Munich, a MPA from the Royal Military College in Canada, a Master’s in military leadership and International Security Politics from the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, and an Executive Business Master from CASD, Rome, Italy.

By training, he is a German Air Force NATO Air Defence Officer with different leadership and managerial positions incl. Defence Planning Office and German MOD as well as Battalion Commander, as well as Research Lead at two Thinks Tanks (GIDS, Hamburg, HybridCoE Helsinki).

His deployments include Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (HQ RS, 2020). His fields of expertise are Hybrid Threats and Warfare, Aspects of Leadership in the 21st Century, modern forms of conflict, Military Strategy, military conflict theory, Hybrid Warfare, Cyber, Artificial Intelligence for the Military and the Art and History of wargaming.