The bestselling author ("Unsere Welt neu denken", "Wir können auch anders", Ullstein Verlag, translated into ten languages, "Werte", Brandstätter Verlag) was most recently Scientific Director at The New Institute and Secretary General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prior to that, she headed the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, after six years as Director of Future Justice at the Brussels office and as Campaign Manager Climate Energy in Hamburg, where she helped establish the World Future Council. She was a member of the German government's Bioeconomy Council. She has received numerous awards for her work, most recently the Science Communication Medal and the Theodor Heuss Prize.