A Bavarian native, I graduated from highschool in 2003 with concentrations in English, Economics/Law and History. I went to college at the University of Regensburg from which I graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in American Studies. I focused primarily on international relations and foreign policy. I spent my senior year in the United States, attending Arizona State University and participated in Model United Nations after finishing in March 2008, with a thesis on “The US Rejection of the UN Human Rights Council”. I completed my master’s degree in Public Policy (with specializations in International Affairs and International Political Economy) at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt (Thuringia, Germany) in 2010. I wrote my MPP thesis on “E-Participation” and have worked on several projects in the general area of “open government”, and still do (I help organizing the Open Government Camp in Berlin). I devote my free time to various projects (see link), many of them on the web and governance- or cinema-related, and friends. My current hobbies are taking care of the cinema websites you find under projects (the latest one being Furious Cinema) as well as getting transparency initiatives like Glaeserner Staat off the ground. I currently work as a Community Manager for the Google-initiated open think tank Internet & Society Co:llaboratory in Berlin.

Current status: Employed (freelance)

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Degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA): Political Science, American Studies (University of Regensburg)

• Master of Public Policy (MPP): Public Policy, International Affairs, International Political Economy (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt)