Curriculum Vitae

Arne Upmeier has been director of the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since May 2020. Previously, he was deputy director and head of the user department at the University Library of the TU Ilmenau.

In addition to his position as Ethics Officer of the German Library Association, he is a member of several national and international committees, including the AG Digitale Bibliotheken in the German Literature Council, the Franco-German Commission for the Digitization of Copyrighted Works and the working group "Law for Science in the Digital Age" of the German Alliance of Science Organizations. Upmeier is a permanent member of the working group of the German Conference of Ministers of Education and Culture, which negotiates the central payments with the collecting societies. He is the representative of German libraries in the copyright committee of the German Cultural Council and regularly advises the German Library Association on legal issues.

Arne Upmeier was born in 1972. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Lund (Sweden) and Münster. He did his doctorate at the TU Berlin on a legal-philosophical topic. He worked at the Chair of Legal Philosophy in Hanover, completed his librarianship at the University of Giessen and studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin.