President of Potsdam University and President of Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Professor Günther has conducted research projects in the areas of enterprise information systems, IT strategy, security and privacy, digital asset management, collaborative software, database management, as well as geographic and environmental information systems. His list of publications includes 19 books and more than 150 papers on related topics. He is Associate Editor ofWirtschaftsinformatik, Information Systems Management, the International Journal on Geographic Information Science, the Journal of Environmental Informatics, the International Journal of Automated Identification Technology, and of Business + Innovation. He was one of the founders of the SSD symposium series on spatial databases, and he has served on more than 60 conference program committees.

Professor Günther has coordinated several large research projects funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economics and Technology, and the German Research Foundation. From 1996 until 2006 he served as Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School of Information Systems. Oliver Günther has held visiting faculty positions at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Cape Town.

Oliver Günther has served as a consultant and board member to various government agencies and high-tech companies. He was Chairman of the Board of Poptel AG, Germany's first voice-over-IP company, and Chief Technology Officer of Teamtoolz, Inc., a San Francisco-based cloud service provider for the marketing and advertising industry. Professor Günther currently serves as Vice-President of the German Informatics Society,  member of the board of Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, member of the board of Humboldt-Universitätsgesellschaft and member of the admissions committee of the German National Academic Foundation.

As a high school student, Oliver Günther was a two-time winner of Germany's National Mathematics Competition. He holds a Diplom in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Between his Ph.D. and his appointment at Humboldt, he held positions with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and with FAW Ulm.