Since January 2014 Head of the department “External Economic Policy” at the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), Federation of German Industries; since June 2016 B20 Sherpa under the B20 Presidency of the German industry associations BDA, BDI and DIHK, responsible for the B20 Outreach process of the German G20; until December 2013 member of the Executive Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); since spring 2010 non-resident senior fellow, German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy, Washington D.C.; 2005-2006 Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin; 2000-2002 Head of the programm “Globalization and the World Economy”, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); PhD thesis at the Free University of Berlin on the economic and political rationale of export credit finance in the United States; 2000 Master of Science in international political economy, London School of Economics; Bachelor studies in economics and North American studies, Free University of Berlin; her fields of interest include international trade and finance as well as commodity markets.