About
About me
I work on projects where several organisations have to deliver together and none of them has the final say: an industry that wants to decarbonise its production, a bank that is supposed to finance it, a development institution, a ministry, an NGO. Each side has its own committees, its own language and its own idea of who moves first.
My job is to turn that state into decisions. Who decides what? Which dependency is blocking right now? What has to be finished before the next meeting? And where does someone have to escalate so that things move on?
- Hanover, hybrid and remote (EU)
- Replies usually within 24h
- Confidentiality/NDA as standard
- Available: up to 3 days a week
How I work
- Open decisions get a date, an owner and a paper that can be voted on.
- I follow up on deadlines and next steps, also when that gets uncomfortable.
- I prepare meetings so that they end with a decision.
- I raise risks while there is still something to be done about them.
- I translate in both directions between board, business units and delivery teams.
Career
I studied in Scotland and Germany in parallel: two bachelor's degrees in International Business, followed by an MSc in Finance and Management at the University of Glasgow, completed with distinction.
After that came around eighteen months in consulting, most recently as a Senior Associate at KPMG, working mainly on EU taxonomy and carbon accounting for financial institutions. From 2023 to 2025 I spent two years at WWF Germany as a project manager: partnerships with banks, a biodiversity roadmap for a development bank, an international paper on nature finance.
In 2025 I became a father. Since October 2025 I have been self-employed; parental leave and my own practice have run alongside each other since then. Part of that work is helping to build a transformation initiative for German industry, at the interface of the real economy, finance and policy.
What stays from that: I know what a bank looks like from the inside, what an NGO looks like from the inside, and by now what an initiative looks like that has to get both to the same table. In programmes where every side has to deliver, that is the difference between translating and talking past each other.
Background
Focus: transition finance and decarbonisation, ESG regulation, biodiversity, project steering. Roles and qualifications include:
- WWF
- KPMG
- Sustainable finance / ESG
- Development bank and MDB contexts
- MSc Finance & Management
Reference contexts (selection)
Some of the projects, anonymised. What I did in each of them is in the case studies:
What else I work on
Since September 2026 I have been pursuing a part-time doctorate at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The question: how coordination between policy, industry and the financial sector enters financing decisions for decarbonisation. The doctorate underpins the consulting work; it does not replace it.
Alongside, I write the Europe–China Signal, an English-language brief on Chinese policy and its consequences for European companies. It runs next to mandate work and is public so that people can see how I work through a topic.