# Nils Motsch

> Partner, Cybersecurity at Deloitte in Munich, Germany, focused on Cyber Strategy & Transformation for Insurance and Banking, with deep expertise in AI Governance and AI Risk Management. Previously an executive at Allianz, running a large-scale transformation program, and before that a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company.

## Professional profile

- **Current role:** Partner, Cybersecurity — Deloitte, Munich, Germany
- **Focus at Deloitte:** Cyber Strategy & Transformation for Insurance and Banking
- **Expertise:** AI Governance, AI Risk Management, Cybersecurity
- **Previously:** Executive at Allianz, leading a large-scale transformation program
- **Earlier:** Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company

## Publications

- [Europe’s new resilience regime: The race to get ready for DORA](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/risk-and-resilience/our-insights/europes-new-resilience-regime-the-race-to-get-ready-for-dora) — McKinsey & Company, June 2024. Jim Boehm and Sebastian Schneider, with Florian Stoll, Lucy Shenton and Nils Motsch. Also in [McKinsey on Risk & Resilience, No. 17](https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functions/risk/our%20insights/mckinsey%20on%20risk%20number%2017/mckinsey-on-risk-and-resilience-issue-17.pdf) (July 2024).
- [Demystifying digital dark matter: A new standard to tame technical debt](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/demystifying-digital-dark-matter-a-new-standard-to-tame-technical-debt) — McKinsey & Company, June 2022. Sven Blumberg, Rahul Das, Jens Lansing, Nils Motsch, Björn Münstermann and Rob Patenge. Also on [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376954935_Demystifying_digital_dark_matter_A_new_standard_to_tame_technical_debt).
- [Risiken durch veraltete IT-Systeme: Tech Debt messen und managen](https://webkiosk.die-bank.de/die-bank-09-2022/67340140/71) (German) — die bank, 09/2022. Dr. Harald Kube, Nils Motsch and Timo Mauerhoefer.
- [What’s new in banking API programs](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/tech-forward/whats-new-in-banking-api-programs) — McKinsey & Company (Tech Forward), January 2022. Malin Fiedler, Timo Mauerhoefer, Nils Motsch and Henning Soller.
- [Collaborative security monitoring based on the MonIKA framework for privacy-preserving information sharing](https://publica.fraunhofer.de/entities/publication/57b5f928-f142-4669-812d-4b653077f08e) — 9th Future Security, Security Research Conference, Berlin, September 2014 (Fraunhofer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8396-0778-7), p. 458. Tobias Kiesling, Nils Motsch, Helmut Kaufmann, Matthias Wübbeling, Till Elsner and Michael Meier.

## Personal interests

Nils enjoys travel and photography, and is a scuba diver. This website is an interactive globe of his travels: it marks the countries he has visited and the places where his photos were taken.

- Countries visited: 64
- Countries dived in: 23
- Photo locations include Tokyo, Singapore, Iceland, Namibia, the Galápagos Islands, the Maldives, Curaçao, Maui, Tenerife, East Africa (Kilimanjaro and safari), the Red Sea, and Mt. Bromo in Indonesia.

## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilsmotsch/): professional background and contact
- [Website](https://www.motsch.me/): interactive travel globe and photo gallery
- [Publications](https://www.motsch.me/publications.html): articles with links
- [Markdown profile](https://www.motsch.me/llms.txt): this file