As the former head of a Berlin startup, Laura has made it as one of her missions to strengthen the startup sector in East Africa. Together with various partners, she works to improve the investment climate and promotes cooperation between German and African companies. Since 2023, Laura has been in charge of the Kenya location within AWE, where she implemented projects to prevent sexualized violence against women in the workplace with local associations, among other things. She has been with GIZ for 8 years and worked in the field of sustainable economic development in Sri Lanka, Uganda and now Kenya. Laura holds a BSc in Agricultural Science and a MSc in Integrated Natural Resource Management from Humboldt University Berlin. She is an alumni of the SLE (centre for rural development studies) postgraduate study programme and had consulted for various development and research organizations in Ethiopia, Turkey and China. Together with her colleague Edda Otieno as well as the DEG-Impulse colleague Hanna Dohrenbusch, Laura is managing the Partners in Transformation Desk East Africa.
March 13, 2025Moderation