Eva Gengler, M.Sc.

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Eva Gengler is an information systems scholar whose research takes an intersectional feminist approach at the intersection of power and artificial intelligence. She earned her doctorate summa cum laude from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) within the International Doctorate Programme Business and Human Rights. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the chair of Prof. Dr. Sven Laumer.

Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “From Oppression to Empowerment: Regulating, Governing, and Reimagining Artificial Intelligence,” examines oppressive manifestations of artificial intelligence, their root causes with a particular focus on power structures, and how these can be transformed through AI regulation, AI governance, and the reimagination of AI from a feminist socio-technical perspective, with special attention to marginalized groups. Alongside her position as a research associate at the Schöller Endowed Chair, Eva was part of the International Doctorate Programme Business and Human Rights – Governance Challenges in a Complex World at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen–Nürnberg (CHREN). Her research was funded for four years by the Bavarian Elite Network. She has published in international journals, conference proceedings, and various academic edited volumes.

Since 2020, Eva has been self-employed and has led numerous projects on AI, power structures, and gender justice, including widely recognized work on AI, women, and sex robotics.

In addition to her academic work, Eva is a co-founder of the initiative and community feminist AI and co-founder and Managing Director of the organizational consultancy enableYou. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on artificial intelligence, power structures, and intersectionality, and has delivered more than 100 keynotes, lectures, panel discussions, and workshops.

Her book “Feministische KI” will be published in February 2026 by Dietz Verlag. In it, she draws on insights from her research, situates them within the context of toxic AI use cases, and develops an intersectional feminist approach to transforming power relations and AI systems.

For several years, Eva served on the executive board of erfolgsfaktorFRAU e. V., where she was deeply engaged in advancing women in business, technology, and leadership. She also acted as a delegate to the Bavarian State Women’s Council. As an expert on feminist AI, she has been featured multiple times, including by the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labour and Social Affairs, the Bavarian Elite Network, and Marc Cain.

In 2025, she was nominated for the Brigitte Award in the category Future Economy, and in 2026 for the CURIA Award in the category Role Model. Her perspectives have been featured in interviews with, among others, ZDF, 3sat, t3n, and Deutschlandfunk.

Following her studies, Eva worked as an IT consultant for BCG Platinion in Germany and abroad, contributing to a large-scale HR transformation and the digitalization of a Finnish gas corporation. She subsequently joined CodeCamp:N, a spin-off of Nürnberger Versicherung, as a business analyst and later advanced into product management for the group’s central IT project. She also assumed leadership of the IT consulting business unit, managing a team of 35 employees. In 2021 and 2022, she successfully acquired EU third-party funding for projects on women and AI and led these international collaborations until the end of 2023.

Eva studied Business Administration (2013–2016) and subsequently International Information Systems (MSc, 2016–2019) at FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg. A formative experience was her study stay at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. Her passion for AI emerged during her master’s thesis on the ethical implications of AI in recruiting.