Dr. Thorsten Käseberg

Visiting Lecturer (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy)

Visiting address

Universität Erfurt
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt

Dr. Thorsten Käseberg

Short Biography

Dr. Thorsten Käseberg, a lawyer and economist, has been serving as a civil servant since 2007 in different functions in the area of economic policy. He currently heads the unit "Competition and Consumer Policy" in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. One focus of his work is the digital transformation and its potential and challenges for regulation. He is also an official of the European Commission (on leave), where he served in the Directorate-General for Competition (2009-2011). 

Dr. Käseberg has lectured at Humboldt University Berlin and published in particular on economic and regulatory issues, including the book Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Cumulative Innovation in the EU and the US (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012). He was educated at the University of Bonn, Humboldt University Berlin, the London School of Economics and New York University.

Courses taught at the Brandt School

Winter Semester 2022/23

  • NPM/GPP: Regulation in the Digital Age

Winter Semester 2019/20

  • EPP: Regulation in the Digital Age

Winter Semester 2018/19

  • EPP: EU Economic Governance and Policies

Summer Semester 2018

  • EPP: Regulation in the Digital Age

Summer Semester 2017

  • EPP: Regulatory Policies

Summer Semester 2016

  • EPP: Regulatory Policies

Summer Semester 2015

  • EPP: Regulatory Policies