Dr. Friedbert Pflüger is Founding Partner of Strategic Minds Company GmbH and Chairman of the Internet Economy Foundation (IEF).

The former press spokesman for then German President Richard von Weizsäcker was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2006. In 1998, Pflüger became Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on EU Affairs and, in 2005, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense. Pflüger is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) of the Atlantic Council of the U.S. He is Chairman of the Internet Economy Foundation (IEF) and a member of the Foundation Board of European netID.