Director of NewIDZ (Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin)
She is executive director of Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin e. V.(NewIDZ). She studied architecture and psychology at the TU Braunschweig, University Hannover, TU Berlin and at the University of Austin and received her doctorate on Communication Orientated Building structure. She worked in several international urban and design research projects e. g. in Barcelona and Paris, taught at universities and prepared an interdisciplinary workshop at the MIT in Boston. She operated as executive vice-president for the media agency MACINA Hannover/ Dubai, before she took over the chief executive position at the International Design Centre Berlin. There she initiates and is involved with new technologies in design, sustainable design, design critics, international exchange and design management.