Handelsblatt: AI — Your skills are in particularly high demand in these professions (Siddhi Pal, Catherine Schneider)

In a news feature in Handelsblatt, journalist Lina Knees details the findings the study Germany's AI Divide conducted by Lead AI Workforce and Innovation Siddhi Pal and Senior Policy Researcher Catherine Schneider. Analyzing data from 600 million public profiles, they identify that Germany hosts Europe's largest pool of AI professionals (117,000 individuals). However, they highlight a critical talent deficit in healthcare and pharmaceuticals—where only 3% of German AI experts work—and emphasize a shift in demand toward business-oriented AI practitioners rather than pure software developers. Pal and Schneider stress that strengthening early-career healthcare researchers and upskilling mid-level management to implement AI tools are essential steps to realizing national AI strategies.