Occupational fields of IB graduates

On this page you will find a non-exhaustive list of employers of IB alumni, organized by professional field.

1. diplomacy and international relations

• Assistant Expert of the Federal Government at the United Nations, (Department of Peacekeeping Operations), New York, USA
• German Embassy Canberra, Head of Economic and Trade Section, Australia
• German Embassy in Cotonou, Benin
• German Embassy in Cairo, Egypt
• German Embassy in Warsaw, Poland
• German Embassy London (Political Counsellor), United Kingdom
• German Embassy Tel Aviv (Political Advisor and Head of Protocol), Israel
• EU Delegation Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia/Brussels, Belgium
• Head of Liaison Office Afghanistan, Qatar
• Ministerial offices of the Federal Foreign Office (speechwriter), Berlin
• Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN and the WTO, Geneva, Switzerland
• Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN, New York, USA

2. development and humanitarian aid 

• Bertelsmann AG (Project Manager), Gütersloh
• Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), various locations (e.g. El Obeid, Kigali, Windhoek)
• German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn
• European Bank for Development and Reconstruction, London, United Kingdom
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Kabul, Afghanistan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Hanoi, Vietnam, Belgrade, Serbia
• Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (locations: Eschborn, Bonn, Berlin, Brussels, Ghana, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Laos, Vietnam, China, Sudan, Cambodia, Thailand)
• Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
• International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ukraine and Geneva
• KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt a. M.
• Malteser International (Program Coordinator), Lebanon
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), South Sudan
• TeachFirst
• Terre des Hommes, Bogotá, Colombia
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP), New York and Myanmar
• United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland
• United Nations World Food Program, Rome, Italy
• USAID Education Project (Research and Evaluation), Zambia

3. climate, environment and sustainability

• response, Frankfurt a. M.
• adelphi, Berlin
• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Bonn & Berlin
• CirPlus UG, Hamburg
• Demeter e.V., Germany
• Franco-German Institute for Energy Transition, Berlin
• Haus Rissen Hamburg - Institute for International Politics and Economics
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (doctoral student at the Department of Ecological Systems Analysis), Leipzig
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig
• IFC/World Bank Group (Consultant in the field of Renewable Energy), Moscow
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam
• 2 Degrees Foundation, Berlin
• Systain Consulting GmbH
• World Bank (RISE Consultant for Renewable Energy), Washington, USA
• World Bank Group (Consultant in the field of Renewable Energy), Russia

4. advice and consulting

• :response, Frankfurt a. M.
• APCO Worldwide (Associate Consultant), Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin
• APCO Worldwide (Associate Consultant), Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin
• Boston Consulting Group Germany
• C230 Consultores, Mexico City, Mexico
• Deloitte & Touche, Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (Professional in the R&D and Government Incentives department), Frankfurt a. M.
• Deloitte Tax LLP, Chicago, USA
• Delta Partners (Strategy Consultant), Singapore
• ECORYS Research and Consulting (Brussels, Belgium)
• Global Banking Development Solutions GbR,
• ICF International, Brussels, Belgium
• International management consultancy INERCONSULT Dr. Reichel Co. GmbH, Dresden, Germany
• KPMG
• McKinsey & Company, Berlin
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, Frankfurt a.M.
• Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Frankfurt and Berlin
• Systain Consulting GmbH
• The Balloch Group, Beijing, China
• TNG Technology Consulting, Munich
• Yelé Consulting, Nanterre, France

5. research, science and think tanks

• adelphi, Berlin
• Amsterdam Center of International Law, University of Amsterdam (Postdoc Researcher), Netherlands
• Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (Research Associate with a focus on civil security research, security policy), Potsdam
• Center for Humanitarian Dialogue - Mediation in Armed Conflict, Geneva
• German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
• German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn
• Dresden International University
• EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium
• Equality and Human Rights Commission, London, United Kingdom
• ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (Senior Researcher, Nuclear Policy), Switzerland
• ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (Senior Researcher, Nuclear Policy), Zurich, Switzerland
• European University of Flensburg (Research Associate in the German-French project Access+)
• European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin, Germany
• European Council on Foreign Relations, London, United Kingdom
• Society for Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Leipzig
• Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
• Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
• Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
• Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Doctoral Fellow), Israel
• Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS) (Communications Specialist), Geneva, Switzerland
• Human Rights Law Center, Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Institute for Peacekeeping Law and International Humanitarian Law (IFHV), Bochum, Germany
• Institute for Organizational Communication GmbH (IFOK), Bensheim, Germany
• Institute of Political Science at the Open University of Hagen
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPR), Washington D.C., USA
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom
• iRights.Lab, Berlin
• James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, USA
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
• Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
• Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research (RWI) (Research Associate, Empirical Labor Market and Education Economics), Essen, Germany
• German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
• Syddansk Universiteit, Aabenraa, Denmark
• Darmstadt University of Technology
• TUD Dresden University of Technology
• Hamburg University of Technology
• The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague, Netherlands
• UNDP Higher Education Project, Oxford
• University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (doctoral student at the Chair of Macroeconomics)
• University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (doctoral student at the Chair of Macroeconomics), Germany
• University of Hamburg, German Institute of Global Area Studies (Research Associate), Hamburg, Germany
• University of Lüneburg
• University of St. Andrews (Lecturer in Terrorism Studies), United Kingdom
• University of Maastricht, Netherlands
• University of Amsterdam (Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law)
• University of Oxford, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, United Kingdom
• University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
• University of Washington (Fulbright Fellow), Seattle, USA
• Uppsala University, Sweden
• International Law Department of the DRC at the University of Geneva
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

5. banking

• Bayerische Landesbank, Munich
• Deutsche Bank AG (Senior Analyst Portfolio and Risk Optimization), Frankfurt a. M.
• KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt a. M.
• M. M. Warburg Bank
• Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB)

6. private sector, trade and management

• Access Microfinance Holding AG, Berlin
• Allianz
• Apple, Brussels, Belgium and Luxembourg
• ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
• ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
• Berlin Lödige Fördertechnik GmbH, Warburg-Scherfede, Germany
• BMW Group
• BMW Group, Germany
• Office of the Leibziger Messe, Beijing, China
• China Mining 2006
• Daimler AG (Press Officer in Global Business Communications), Germany
• Deutsche Telekom AG
• E.ON Ruhrgas AG, Essen, Germany
• Effem (MARS Inc.)
• EGL AG
• envia Mitteldeutsche Energie, Chemnitz
• Fortbildungsakademie der Wirtschaft GmbH, Henningsdorf
• Icon-Institute Public Sector GmbH, Cologne
• Intercom Dresden GmbH
• invest in visions, Frankfurt a.M.
• LFS Financial Systems GmbH,
• Lufthansa Systems AG, Miami, USA
• Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH (Managing Director), Frankfurt a.M.
• MAHLE, Stuttgart
• Mayato GmbH, Berlin
• NIS Gazprom NEFT (Organizational Effectiveness Director), Novi Sad, Belgium
• Nursing Needs (UK) Ltd, Krakow Office
• oekom Research (Junior Analyst), Munich
• Ookam Software
• Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH, Germany
• Siemens, (Policy Advisor in the area of Environment, Health and Safety), Brussels, Belgium
• Tchibo GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
• Varian Medical Systems, Darmstadt, Germany
• Vattenfall (Business Development Manager Wind), Berlin, Germany
• Association of European Chemical Regions (ECRN e.V.), Brussels, Belgium
• Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG), Leipzig, Germany
• Representation of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce to the European Union, (Head of European Economic Policy Unit) Brussels, Belgium
• Wintershall Dea, Kassel, Berlin and Libya
• Saxony Economic Development Corporation, Dresden
• Xchanging, London

7. media and communication

• Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania, Bucharest
• ARD Germany and foreign desk (reporter/editor), Denmark
• Axel Springer, Germany
• Deutsche Welle, worldwide
• German Radio
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
• Media Consulta AG
• Media consultancy: Pleon Kothes Klewes, Munich
• North German Broadcasting Corporation
• Scholz & Friends Agenda, Berlin, Germany
• SPIEGEL ONLINE, Germany

8. law and international organizations

• Beiten Burkhardt Attorneys at Law, Moscow, Russia
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, London, United Kingdom
• Clifford Chance LLP, London, United Kingdom
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deriner LLP, London, United Kingdom
• International Campaign to abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN)
• International Labor Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland and Ankara, Turkey
• International Committee of the Red Cross (Thematic Legal Adviser in the Legal Department), Geneva, Switzerland
• Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands
• Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
• UN Office of Legal Affairs, New York, USA
• Election Observer Mission, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia

9 Governance and International Organizations

• UN Environment Finance Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
• World Bank Group, Dakar, Senegal
• International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington, USA
• IFC/World Bank Group (Consultant in the field of Renewable Energy), Moscow, Russia
• Council of the EU, Liaison Office to the UN, New York, USA
• International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., USA
• European Central Bank, Frankfurt a.M.
• European Defense Agency, Brussels, Belgium
• United Nations Industrial Development Org., Bangkok, Thailand
• European Parliament, Advisor, Brussels, Belgium
• Worldbank, Knowledge Networks Agency for MENA, Marseille, France
• OECD Development Center (Economist), Paris, France
• World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland

10. (Sub-)national public institutions

• Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society Tasks
• Federal Chancellery (Advisor for the G7 and G20 process in the Sherpa staff), Berlin
• Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin
• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Bonn & Berlin
• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Bonn & Berlin
• German Federal Armed Forces, Potsdam (Intercultural Mission Advisor)
• Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Executive Officer at the Green Party parliamentary group in Hesse), Wiesbaden
• German Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
• German Bundestag (MdBs), Berlin
• Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sport, Wiesbaden
• State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Saxony
• State Center for Political Education, Dresden
• Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, The Hague, Netherlands
• National Treasury, Pretoria, South Africa
• Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development, Dresden
• State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
• Zanzibar Health Ministry, Overseas Development Institute

11. self-employment and start-ups

• Freelance journalism
• natureplus - International Association for Sustainable Building and Living
• Start-up for sustainable travel

12. other employers

• European Association for Information on Local Development (ASTRALE LIFE), Brussels, Belgium
• Goethe Institute, Volgograd, Russia
• BIOCOM AG, Berlin
• Frankfurter Jugendring, Germany
• Körber Foundation (Program Manager), Berlin
• Mercator College for International Affairs (Fellow), Munich
• Network European Movement Germany e.V.
• Studienfonds OWL e.V., Paderborn
• Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (digitization policy in the quality infrastructure), Berlin