Thomas Kralinski is State Secretary at the Saxon State Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport. He is also a Co-Founder of Das Progressive Zentrum and was a Member of the Board until 2022. For the past several years, he served as Head of the State Chancellery and State Secretary for Federal Affairs, Media, Digitalisation and International Relations for the government of the German state of Brandenburg. He studied political science, economics and East European studies at the universities of Leipzig and Manchester.