Lisa Hohensinn (née Schmidthuber) is a university reader at the Department of Management’s Institute for Public Management and Governance at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She received her habilitation degree in business administration from WU Vienna. In her habilitation thesis “Digital Governance: Openness and the Transformation of Public Accountability”, she investigated the global trends of digital governance development and elaborated how government openness influences individual perceptions of government and behavior. In addition, she holds a doctoral degree in business administration from Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her doctoral thesis focused on how government organizations can benefit from digitalization and how the exploration and exploitation of external knowledge is related to public sector innovation. The doctoral thesis was awarded with the “Kommunalwissenschaftlicher Preis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler-Stiftung“. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Suffolk University Boston, and University of Mannheim.