Dr. Ariel Dora Stern is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics, and Policy at the Hasso Plattner Institute, a Full Professor at the University of Potsdam, and an Adjunct Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, she spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard Business School and continues to teach in executive education programs for Harvard Medical School.

Prof. Stern’s research focuses on innovation and technology management in health care, using methods from econometrics and data science to curate and analyze novel datasets. She has published widely in top journals in medicine, economics, and health care policy, and her research has been cited by Bloomberg, The New York Times, National Public Radio, STAT News, the Handlesblatt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Tagesspiegel. She is a sought-after commentator and expert on the impact of emerging technologies in healthcare, frequently contributing to conferences, policy discussions, and media coverage.

From 2020-2021 Ariel served as the Director for International Health Care Economics at the Health Innovation Hub, an independent think tank of the German Federal Ministry of Health. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, the German Society for Digital Medicine, and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, a regular commentator on health policy and technology, and advises numerous health care startups.

Ariel received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she was a National Bureau of Economic Research Predoctoral Fellow in the Economics of Health and Aging. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Dartmouth College, where she was a Presidential Scholar and national collegiate figure skating champion.