Felicitas Weileder holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz. She is interested in public administration, development and security policy, and earned a Master of Public Policy at the Hertie School and a Master of Public Administration through the dual degree programme with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Felicitas completed a Professional Year at the Federal Ministry of Defence, where she helped prepare high-level coordination meetings with key foreign and security policy stakeholders. She worked for the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Office of the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Since 2017, she has been the Vice-Chair of Amnesty International Germany.
Master’s thesis title
Capstone Project: Analysing radical government transformations: The enablement mindset in practice.
Policy paper: The 3% goal: Why Germany should pool its development, defence and security budget