Internationality of IB alumni
Last updated January 2023
Source: ZIS Alumni Network & Mentor List
The following list provides examples of (former) employment positions held by ZIS alumni both in Germany and abroad.
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Employment Abroad
Africa
Egypt
- German Embassy in Cairo
Benin
- German Embassy in Cotonou
Ghana
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Cape Coast
Liberia
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Wintershall Dea
Namibia
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German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Windhoek
Nigeria
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) (Portfolio Manager), Abuja
Rwanda
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) (Young Professional (Development Cooperation Trainee) in the WHO Health Program), Kigali
Senegal
- World Bank Group, Dakar
Sudan
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), El Obeid
South Sudan
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Tanzania
- Zanzibar Ministry of Health, Overseas Development Institute
Tunisia
- Heinrich Böll Foundation (Project Manager for the Election Observation Mission), Tunis
Zambia
- USAID Education Project (Research and Evaluation)
The Americas
Brazil
- FES São Paulo
Colombia
- EU Delegation to Colombia, Colombia/Brussels
- Terre des Hommes, Bogotá
Canada
- Queen’s University, Kingston
Mexico
- C230 Consultores (Projektkoordinatorin), Mexico City
USA
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey
- Council of the EU, Liaison Office to the UN, New York
- Deloitte Tax LLP, Chicago
- International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
- International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPR)
- Lufthansa Systems AG, Miami
- Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN, New York
- United Nations, Office of the Secretary-General
- United Nations (Deputy Expert of the Federal Government to the United Nations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations), New York
- United Nations Development Programme, New York
- United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
- University of Washington (Fulbright Fellow), Seattle
- World Bank (Consultant in the field of renewable energy—Investment Readiness for Renewable Energy (RISE)), Washington
Asia
Afghanistan
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Office Director), Kabul
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Jalalabad
People's Republic of China
- Leipzig Trade Fair Office, Beijing
- China Mining 2006
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German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Beijing
- The Balloch Group, Beijing
Israel
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Doctoral Fellow)
- German Embassy in Tel Aviv (Political Advisor and Chief of Protocol)
Cambodia
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Qatar
- Head of the Afghanistan Liaison Office
Laos
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Lebanon
- Malteser International (Program Coordinator), Beirut
Myanmar
- United Nations Development Program (Statistics Specialist)
Singapore
- Delta Partners (Strategy Consultant), Singapore
Thailand
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Bangkok
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Turkey
- International Labor Organization (ILO), Ankara
Vietnam
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation Office in Vietnam
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Australia
Australia
- Head of the Economic and Trade Section, German Embassy in Canberra
Europe
Belgium
- Apple
- ECORYS Research and Consulting, Brussels
- Egmont Institute, Brussels
- European Parliament, Brussels
- European Association for Information on Local Development (ASTRALE LIFE), Brussels
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Brussels
- ICF International, Brussels
- Trade Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament, Brussels
- Siemens, Brussels (Policy Advisor in the Environment, Health, and Safety Division)
- Representative of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce to the European Union, Brussels (Head of the European Economic Policy Division)
- Association of European Chemical Regions (ECRN e.V.), Brussels
Denmark
- University of Southern Denmark, Aabenraa
- ARD International News Desk (Reporter/Editor), Copenhagen
- University of Southern Denmark
France
- World Bank, Knowledge Networks Agency for MENA, Marseille
- OECD Development Center (The Economist), Paris
- Yélé Consulting
Italy
- UN World Food Programme, Rome
Luxembourg
- iTunes, Apple
Netherlands
- Amsterdam Center of International Law, University of Amsterdam (Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer), Amsterdam
- ECORYS Research and Consulting
- Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, The Hague
- Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
- The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague
- Maastricht University
- University of Amsterdam (Associate Professor in the Department of International and European Law)
- University of Southern Denmark (Associate Professor, Department of Law), Odense
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Poland
- German Embassy in Warsaw
- Nursing Needs (UK) Ltd., Kraków Office
Romania
- General German Newspaper for Romania, Bucharest
Russia
- Goethe Institute, Volgograd
- Beiten Burkhardt Attorneys at Law, Moscow
- Remolux Russia GmbH, Moscow
- IFC/World Bank Group (Consultant in the field of renewable energy), Moscow
Sweden
- Uppsala University
Switzerland
- Center for Humanitarian Dialogue – Mediation in Armed Conflict, Geneva
- ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (Senior Researcher, Nuclear Policy), Zurich
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Geneva
- Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (Communications Specialist), Geneva
- HURIDOCS
- International Committee of the Red Cross (Thematic Legal Adviser in the Legal Department), Geneva
- International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
- International Organization for Migration, Geneva
- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva
- Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN and the WTO, Geneva
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva
- UN Environment Finance Initiative
- Department of International Law of the German Red Cross at the University of Geneva
- World Economic Forum, Geneva
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Serbia
- NIS Gazprom NEFT (Director of Organizational Effectiveness), Novi Sad
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Belgrade
Ukraine
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
United Kingdom
- Anglo American
- Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford
- Clifford Chance LLP, London
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, London
- German Embassy in London (Political Counselor)European Bank for Development and Reconstruction, London
- ECORYS Research and Consulting, Human Rights Law Centre, Nottingham
- Equality and Human Rights Commission, London
- European Council on Foreign Relations, London
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deriner LLP, London
- TNG Technology Consulting
- International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
- University of St. Andrews (Lecturer in Terrorism Studies)
- University of Oxford
- UNDP Higher Education Project, Oxford
- Xchanging, London
Domestic Employment Relationships
Germany
- Access Microfinance Holding AG, Berlin
- Adelphi
- Allianz
- APCO Worldwide (Associate Consultant), Frankfurt am Main and Berlin
- ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt
- ARD
- Federal Foreign Office (Senior Foreign Service), Berlin
- Axel Springer
- Bayerische Landesbank, Munich
- Bertelsmann AG (Project Manager)
- Bertelsmann Music Group
- BIOCOM AG
- BMW Group
- Boston Consulting Group Germany
- Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society
- Office of the Federal Chancellor (Advisor for the G7 and G20 Process in the Sherpa’s Office), Berlin
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Bonn & Berlin
- German Armed Forces, Potsdam (Intercultural Mission Advisor)
- Alliance ’90/The Greens (Executive Committee Advisor to the Green Party’s State Parliamentary Group in Hesse), Wiesbaden
- Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (Research Associate specializing in civil security research and security policy), Potsdam
- CirPlus UG
- Daimler AG (Press Officer in Global Business Communications)
- Deloitte & Touche (Professional in the R&D and Government Incentives Department), Frankfurt am Main
- Demeter e.V.
- German Accreditation Body GmbH, Berlin (Digitalization Policy in Quality Infrastructure)
- Deutsche Bank AG (Senior Analyst, Portfolio and Risk Optimization), Frankfurt am Main
- Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
- German-French Institute for the Energy Transition, Berlin
- German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP)
- German Society for International Cooperation
- German Bundestag, Berlin, Members of the Bundestag, Advisors.
- German Development Service
- German Institute for Development Policy (DIE), Bonn
- Deutsche Telekom AG
- Deutschlandfunk
- Dresden International University
- Edventurers
- EGL AG
- Effem (MARS Inc.)
- enviaM
- E.ON Ruhrgas AG
- European University of Flensburg (Research Associate in the Franco-German Access+ Project)
- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin
- European Defense Agency
- European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main (Risk Analyst)
- Fortbildungsakademie der Wirtschaft GmbH, Henningsdorf
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Frankfurt Youth Council
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- German Institute of Global Area Studies (Research Associate), Hamburg
- German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
- Society for Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Leipzig
- Global Banking Development Solutions GbR
- Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
- Haus Rissen, Hamburg
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (doctoral student in the Department of Ecological Systems Analysis), Leipzig
- Hesse Ministry of the Interior and Sports, Wiesbaden
- Icon-Institute Public Sector GmbH, Cologne
- Institute for Corporate Affairs, Frankfurt am Main
- Institute for Peacekeeping Law and International Humanitarian Law (IFHV), Bochum
- Institute for Organizational Communication GmbH (IFOK), Bensheim
- Institute of Political Science at the Hagen Distance Learning University
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
- Intercom Dresden GmbH
- INERCONSULT Dr. Reichel Co. GmbH, an international management consulting firm, Dresden
- iRights.Lab
- invest in visions, Frankfurt am Main
- KfW Development Bank (Project Manager), Frankfurt am Main
- Körber Foundation (Program Manager), Berlin
- State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony
- State Agency for Political Education, Dresden
- Green Party State Parliamentary Caucus in Hesse
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- LFS Financial Systems GmbH, Berlin
- Lödige Fördertechnik GmbH, Warburg-Scherfede
- Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH (Managing Director), Frankfurt am Main
- Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
- MAHLE
- Mayato GmbH, Berlin
- McKinsey & Company, Berlin
- Media Consulta AG
- Mercator College for International Affairs (Fellow), Munich
- M. M. Warburg Bank
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (speechwriter), Berlin
- Network European Movement Germany e.V.
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk
- Oakam Software
- oekom Research (Junior Analyst), Munich
- Pleon Kothes Klewes, Munich
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers, Frankfurt am Main
- :response, Frankfurt
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institute for Economic Research (RWI) (Research Associate, Empirical Labor Market and Education Economics), Essen
- Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
- Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (Consultant), Frankfurt and Berlin
- Saxon Reconstruction Bank (SAB)
- Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development
- Scholz&Friends Agenda, Berlin
- SPD Party Executive Committee (campaign staff member), Berlin
- SPIEGEL ONLINE
- State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
- 2 Degrees Foundation
- Foundation for Science and Politics, Berlin
- OWL Study Fund, Inc., Paderborn
- Systain Consulting GmbH
- Tchibo GmbH, Hamburg
- TeachFirst
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- TUD Dresden University of Technology
- The Corps, Berlin
- TraceTronic
- TU Dresden (Research Associate), Dresden
- TUHH Hamburg (Personal Advisor), Hamburg
- University of Lüneburg
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (doctoral student in the Department of Macroeconomics)
- Vattenfall (Business Development Manager, Wind), Berlin
- Varian Medical Systems, Darmstadt
- Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG), Leipzig
- Wintershall Dea, Kassel & Berlin
- Saxony Economic Development Corporation, Dresden
- Auditing firm Deloitte & Touche GmbH
- KPMG, Auditing and Tax Consulting
- Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ZevA), Hanover
Self-Employment
- Freelance Journalism
- Start-up for sustainable travel
- natureplus - International Association for Sustainable Building and Living
This list is by no means exhaustive; this overview represents only a selection of the employment histories of Dresden alumni in “International Relations” to date, as known to the ZIS.