Holger Mühlbauer

From 2009, Mühlbauer has been managing director of the IT security association TeleTrusT, which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies. In 2020, he contributed to Wirtschaftswoche's Economy 4.0 – Die Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft (the digitalisation of science).

In 2000, Mühlbauer moved to the Austrian equivalent, Austrian Standards, in Vienna. He held the position of Secretary in organisations such as the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the International Standards Organisation (ISO). For ISO, he served as Secretary of service-related committees, including Personal Financial Planning, Psychological Assessment, Brand Valuation, Learning Services for Non-Formal Education and Training, and Rating Services. He initiated the ISO project "Brand valuation". He serves as an auditor for the ISO 20252 standard, (Requirements on services of market, opinion and social research), and for ISO 10668, (Brand valuation), among others.

After military service Mühlbauer studied law, and worked as a scientific assistant at the TU Berlin for the faculty of computer science (Informatik), where he focused on data security and information law (Informationsrecht). He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1994 about Einwohnermeldewesen (Residents' registration). He then worked for the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung [de] in Berlin. From 1996 he worked for the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German institute for technical standards in Berlin, as managing director for the standards committee (Normenausschuss) for usability and services.

Holger Mühlbauer ([ˈhɔlɡɐ ˈmyːlˌbaʊ̯ɐ]; born 1964) is a German jurist and writer, focused on technical standards and information security, working for the German DIN as managing director of a committee, for the Austrian Standards, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the International Standards Organisation (ISO). He is managing director of TeleTrusT, and author of specialist books.