Alumni

Alumni Council


The Alumni Council serves as an advisory body to the Management of the Hertie School. Its members are alumni of all programmes and cohorts that are appointed to three-year terms. The Alumni Council meets at least once a year for a strategy counseling session in which current strategic issues are discussed with the Management Team. For more information on the Alumni Council Terms of Reference, click here.

Jennifer Beckermann

Director, Executive Office, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom

Julia Black

Missing Migrants Project Coordinator, International Organization for Migration

Johannes Boege

Chief Revenue Officer at NZZ Mediengruppe

Elias Brumm

Desk Officer for the Policy Planning Unit, German Federal Foreign Office

Javier Guillot

Chief Strategy Officer at Radikal

Christoph Gusovius

Head of Department, Ministry of Education of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Riefqah Jappie

ITC Representative to the UN, International Trade Center

Katri Kemppainen-Bertram

Senior Global Health Consultant

Harmke Kruithof

Programme Manager, Forced Displacement and Migration at the European Commission, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development

Fabian Leber

Siddharth Merchant

Programme Analyst for the Environment, Natural Resources and Energy Global Practice, World Bank South Asia

Claudia Müller

Founder at Female Finance Forum

Bidjan Nashat

Global Programme Quality and Impact Director, Save the Children International

Fanny Ries

Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry of Defence

Monika Rimmele

Global Liaison Lead Digital Health, Siemens Healthineers

Nikolas Scherer

Manager for Policy and Advocacy on Anticipation and Disaster Risk Financing, National Headquarters, German Red Cross

Dan Sobovitz

Speechwriter and Digital Communication Strategist for Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, European Commission

Dr. Julia Stamm

Founder and CEO at The Futures Project, Berlin

Anna Uhl

Former Head of the Department for Policy Issues, Coordination of Länder and the Ministers-President Conference in the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the German Federal Government (currently on sabbatical)

Mónica Wills-Silva

Principal Advisor for International Development at The Behavioural Insights Team