Prof. Dr. Zoltán Cséfalvay heads the Centre for Next Technological Futures at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (Budapest), where he gives lectures and conducts research on digitalisation, robotisation, and artificial intelligence in Europe. Previously, he worked as a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville (2019–2020). He served as the Hungarian ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris (2014–2018) and as Minister of State for Economic Strategy in Hungary (2010–2014). He was Professor of Economic Geography at Andrássy University Budapest (2002–2010) and Professor at Kodolányi János University in Hungary for more than two decades. As a research fellow, he worked in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Cardiff. He is the author of 15 books and more than 80 articles in edited books and peer-reviewed journals in English, German, and Hungarian. He recently published his latest book—FREEDOM, INNOVATION, PROSPERITY: The Secrets of Success in the Digital Era—about the impact of the current wave of new technologies on business, society, and geopolitics.