Robert Anton Dehm is a Counsellor in the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU and currently chairs the Council Working Party for Telecommunications and Information Society of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU. From 2015 to 2016 he was a Policy Officer at the Unit for Economic and Societal Aspects of the Digital Agenda, Digital Sovereignty at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. Previously, he held the position of First Secretary for Industry Policy at the German Embassy to the United States, in Washington DC and served as Co-Chairman for the Member States Group of the Advisory Council of Aeronautic Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE). He studied economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.