Christian Tropp

Christian Tropp has a diverse work experience in various strategic and managerial roles. Christian started their career at Emerson in 2000, where they completed the International Trainee Programme. Christian then served as Global Product Manager from 2002 until 2006. In 2007, Tropp joined TDK as a Product & Business Development Manager. Christian worked there until 2012. Since 2012, they have been working at Giesecke+Devrient, starting as a Senior Strategy Manager and later becoming the Post-Merger-Integration Lead. From 2019 to 2023, Tropp served as the Strategy Director for Public Currency, and then transitioned to the position of Strategic Development Director for IoT.

Christian Tropp's education history includes:

- Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where they completed the Oxford UK Strategy Programmes.

- London Business School, where they pursued the Executive Education Strategic Programmes.

- TUM School of Management at Technical University Munich, where they completed the EEC Executive Education Center.

- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where they participated in the Executive School Department of Management.

- MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from AKAD University Stuttgart, with a focus on New Business Models.

- University of applied sciences Munich, where they earned a Dipl.-Wirtsch-Ing. (FH) degree in Industrial Engineering and Management.

Christian Tropp has also obtained additional certifications, including the CAE Cambridge Advanced English Certificate (C1) from the University of Cambridge, a Distinction in Control Systems Engineering & Automation from WACKER / TSM, certification in Global Business Development Digital Markets from ESMT Berlin - Gracht, and an NLP Diploma & Practitioner from INLPTA - International NLP Trainers Association.