Diplomatic Council Appoints New IT Leadership Team

The Diplomatic Council (DC), United Nations (UN) registered global Think Tank has appointed two new leaders for the chair positions of its DC Global IT Forum.

The top managers Gabriele Viebach and Thomas J. Graebe will share tasks and jointly assume responsibility for the DC Global Information Technology Forum. By the rotational change, Thorsten Nowak will resign from this IT Chairman position but will remain Chairman for the DC-Initiative Safer Internet for Children.

Gabriele Viebach, new Chairwoman DC Global IT Forum, is a strategist, a lateral thinker and “maker”. She works for various international software companies as a strategy advisor and/or holds positions as a member of their board or executive committee.

Gabriele Viebach supports innovative corporate incubator concepts, she creates and sharpens structures and organizations in line with the defined corporate strategy, she works out go-to-market models and business plans with international alignment in the digital age.

Gabriele Viebach is considered one of the global leading heads for the transformation of markets and enterprises in the digital world.

Thomas J. Graebe, new Chairman DC Global IT Forum, is managing director sales of QualityMinds, a company with expertise on international quality assurance for software engineering.

Beyond his entrepreneurship, Thomas J. Graebe has been devoted to social and humanitarian projects for many years. He is one of the supporters of the White IT Alliance and the DC Safer Internet for Children Initiative, both projects established with the objective to protect children against abuse all over the world.

Moreover, Thomas Graebe is the smart creator of the „Diplomatic Council App for Apple & Android“, which in addition to further functions collects donations for charitable projects.

The intention of Diplomatic Council Global IT Forum is to serve as a platform for entrepreneurs and managers from the IT sector, who – beyond technology – would like to assume responsibility in society. For this purpose, the two new leaders have developed a master plan to accomplish the following goal: The DC Global IT Forum has taken on the task to position the human being in the “Eco System IT”.

The Eco System goes beyond mere technology and comprises social, economic and political impacts that are a result of the all-encompassing digitalization.

The Global IT Forum’s agenda includes topics such as information security and confidentiality, protection of privacy, new IT-based business models, requirements for national legislators through IT services, cross-border democratization through global IT infrastructure, sustainability, software as a reproduction approach of human thinking, cyber crime, bio IT and the shift from an information to a knowledge society.

The Diplomatic Council (DC), United Nations (UN) registered global Think Tank founded with the objective to serve as a bridge between diplomacy, economy and society.

Members committed and dedicated to the Diplomatic Council strongly believe that a thriving economy bringing prosperity to mankind is one of the best guarantors for peace.

Consequently as members the Diplomatic Council welcomes not solely members of the diplomatic or consular corps but also personalities from industry, politics, society, culture and sports.