CV

Current Positions

Chief of Staff Minister Jakob von Weizsäcker and Director General Policy and Coordination at the Saarland Ministry of Finance and Science

Honorary Professor of Public Policy and Business, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Future World Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of Change, IE University

Deputy Chairman of SPD Committee on Fundamental Values

Previous Positions

Managing Director of Social Europe Publishing & Consulting GmbH (2022)

Fellow at the German Ministry of Finance (on secondment to the Federal Chancellor’s Office between June and November 2021) (2020 – 2022)

Research Associate at LSE Public Policy Group (PPG), London School of Economics and Political Science (2013 – 2020)

Managing Director of Social Europe Publishing & Consulting GmbH (2018 – 2020)

Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (2017 – 2018)

Director of New Global Strategy Ltd. (2010 – 2018)

Director of Social Europe Ltd. (2011 – 2018)

John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2017)

Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (2011 – 2013)

Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science (2010 – 2011)

Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow and Head of the European Programme at the Global Policy Institute London (2006 – 2010)

Visiting Fellow at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University (2007)

Education

Oxford Diploma in Global Business, University of Oxford (2017)

MSc Finance (Economic Policy), University of London (2015)

Executive MBA, London Metropolitan University (2011)

PhD in Comparative Politics, London Metropolitan University (2008)

MA in British and European Politics and Government, London Guildhall University (2001)

Undergraduate Studies in Political Science and English at Trier University, Germany (1998 – 2000)

Honours & Awards

.EU Web Award 2018 winner for www.socialeurope.eu

The Said Prize for the best overall student in Global Business 2017, Said Business School, University of Oxford

The Said Prize for the best project in Global Business 2017, Said Business School, University of Oxford

Honorary Fellow at Global Policy Institute, Durham University

Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (FRSA)