Markus Zanner is Managing Director of the IAS and coordinator for TUM’s institutional strategy "TUM. The Entrepreneurial University."

His prior position was as project manager for the external supervisory board ("Hochschulrat") and the academic senate of TUM. From 2000 to 2004 he was a project manager at the faculty of medicine at TUM.  He studied history, philosophy and romance languages in Regensburg and Posadas (Argentine).