Nina Schick

Nina Schick is a world-leading authority on Generative AI, recognized as one of the earliest and leading experts on deepfakes and synthetic media. Half-Nepalese, half-German, fluent in five languages, she has lived and worked across Europe, Asia, and North America. She holds degrees from Cambridge University and University College London.

Her career began in politics and journalism, where she worked as a Press and Policy Research Assistant for Adrian Sanders MP in the House of Commons before contributing to BBC Millbank, The Sunday Times, SPIEGEL International, and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In 2013, Nina became Communications Director at Open Europe, a think tank focused on European policy, later moving into senior strategic roles at Hanbury Strategy and Rasmussen Global. For a decade, she operated at the heart of UK and EU policy through Brexit, energy crises, and the erosion of democratic trust. She worked on Emmanuel Macron's 2017 presidential campaign and built the Democracy Perception Index, the world's largest machine-learning study on global attitudes toward democracy.

She spent seven years as a strategic analyst for CNN, Bloomberg, and Sky as a primary intelligence source during the defining geopolitical fractures of the decade. In 2018, she founded Tamang Ventures, a consultancy exploring the impact of exponential technologies on national security. Her 2020 book, DEEPFAKES, was the first to establish the geopolitical framework for generative AI, years before it entered the global mainstream. The book has been translated into five languages.

Career History

• 2024–Present: Member of Qlik's AI Advisory Council
• 2022: Advisor to Synthesia, the world's first enterprise AI video generation platform
• 2021: Advisor to Truepic, a pioneer in digital content authentication
• 2018–Present: Founder of Tamang Ventures
• 2013–2018: Communications Director at Open Europe, then senior strategic roles at Hanbury Strategy and Rasmussen Global

What Nina Schick could bring to Qlik's AI Council: Her appointment positions Qlik to benefit from her expertise in bridging the gap between technical AI capabilities and geopolitical/ethical implications. As the strategic mind behind "Industrial Intelligence," which frames AI as the definitive engine of hard power through control of energy, semiconductors, and compute, she can help guide Qlik's enterprise customers in understanding AI not merely as a business tool, but as infrastructure with profound implications for sovereignty, trust, and organizational resilience. Her direct advisory relationships with NATO, the U.S. Army, the United Nations, and Mastercard on AI and statecraft enable her to bring strategic foresight about how regulatory, geopolitical, and security considerations will shape enterprise data and analytics adoption in the AI-driven age.