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Cathleen Berger brings 15+ years of international, professional experience in various positions of management and leadership. She has worked across all sectors, academia, government, non-profit, corporate, and early-stage start-up and foundation. Her engagement and research focus on the intersection of digital technologies, sustainability, and social impact.

She currently works with the Bertelsmann Stiftung as Co-Team Lead for Upgrade Democracy and Senior Expert on future technologies and sustainability. In addition, she occasionally advises and works with social purpose companies and organisations on their climate and social impact strategies.

Previously, she directed the B Corporation certification process of a pre-seed climate tech start-up, launched, and headed up Mozilla’s environmental sustainability programme, worked within the International Cyber Policy Coordination Staff at the German Foreign Office, as a consultant with Global Partners Digital, a research assistant at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and a visiting lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.