Media contributions

Podcast guest at Business Diplomacy Today - 23.04.2026
Guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) - 16.04.2026
Background interview for Africa.Table: Professional Briefing - 27.03.2026
Blog article for VoxDev - 18.08.2025
Blog article for Democracy in Africa (DiA) - 27.08.2025
Background interview for Deutsche Welle - 06.10.2024
Blog Article for UNIDO IAP - 04.05.2023

Other speaking events

  • Moderatation of Launch Event Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2024 ‘Decent Work in Global Supply Chains’
  • Speaker at SPD event on “EU-AfriTech – Innovation und entrepreneurship on and with the African continent”, September 2023
  • Moderation at the Ansprenger Symposium 2023: Afrikawissenschaft trifft Praxis of session on “Reforming the International Financial Architecture, Making Development Finance Sustainable – A German-African Perspective“, September 2023
  • Speaker at GIGA policy event on “Platforms and Online Workers in India and Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Decent Work”, April 2023
  • Meetings with Member of the German Bundestag as part of Leibniz im Bundestag.
      • Nicolas Zippelius (CDU) on “The Digital Race for Africa: What Remains of Europe’s Promise of Values?”, January 2026
      • Knut Geschau & Till Mansmann (FDP) on “The Rise of Technology Start-ups in Africa: Real Development Potential for the Continent or Unrealistic Hype?”, May 2023
      • Alois Gerig (CDU) on “German direct investment in Africa: opening up a future market, better development aid or even harmful?”, May 2021
      • Gabriele Hiller-Ohm (SPD) on “Structural change in Africa”, June 2019
  • Speaker at the Responsible Innovation Summit 2022 at the University of Göttingen in the session “Doing Business in Africa – Spotlighting Opportunies in the World’s next Big Market”, June 2022
  • Lecturer at the seminar in “Controversies in Development in Development Economics” togeter with Professor Jann Lay at the University of Göttingen, 2018 and 2021
  • Lecturer at the seminar in “What is the Role of the Unofficial Economy in Economic Development?” at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 2019