Work experience
Since 03/2023
Policy Consultant
- Strategic consultancy on geopolitical risk topics
- Focus (but not concluded): Defence & Security, Technology & Digitilization, transatlantic relations, Great Power Competition
03/2022 – 12/2022
Senior Public Relations Manager: Stiftung Internationaler Karlspreis zu Aachen
- Expansion and strategic development of public relations
- Organization, preparation and management of press conferences
- Expansion and management of social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- Editorial work, creation of concepts, campaigns, texts and contributions
- Content management (from the idea to production to playout)
- Community management (independent coordination with committees, partners, service providers)
- Expansion of the international network of journalists
- Identification of new positioning opportunities and formats
- Co-conception, -organization and support of events and committee work
05/2015 – 02/2022
Digital Communications Manager, Munich Security Conference
- Developing and contributing to the general communication strategy in close cooperation with the COO, CEO and Director of Communications.
- Coordinating the MSC YouTube Studio and MSC Live Studio 2022: coordinating the project team, close cooperation with the partner (Google), managing influencers such as Diana zur Löwen, coordinating suppliers as well as on the ground management during the conference weekend.
- Strengthening the audience outreach on social media and increasing the recognition value through the development and implementation of an audio-visual corporate identity strategy.
- Preparing, conducting and editing video interviews with high-level participants, creating highlight videos and explainity-clips, trailer and other video formats.
- Managing of live-streaming of various event formats on digital platforms.
- Improving the participants‘ experience by managing, designing and developing a mobile conference app.
- Leading small project teams and coordinating with other departments.
- On the ground preparation and realization of international event formats on international security in Berlin, Brussels, Washington, Doha and other international capitals (e.g. Core Group Meeting 2018/2019, European Defence Roundtable 2017, Cyber Security Summit 2018, 2019, NATO Engages 2019)
- Coordination with partners (from the government as well as from civil society and business) and service providers such as hotels and fair construction.
- Liaising with offices of high level national and international conference participants from politics, private sector, academia and civil society.
Social commitment
Since 07/2019 President of YATA Germany
Since 05/2014 Fellow at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
Since 09/2006 Soccer referee
Education:
2016 – 2017 Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain: International Security
09/2014 –
06/2015 University Collage Cork, Ireland: ERASMUS Exchange
10/2012 –
09/2016 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany: Political Science and History