Stefanie Harter

Biography

Since September 2023, Stefanie Harter is heading the section “Governance and Human Rights” at the department “Global Policy, Governance, Cities” at GIZ headquarter in Bonn, Germany and is thus responsible for democracy topics in the online and offline world. Stefanie is an economist by background and holds a PhD on networks in the Soviet/Russian space and aviation industry. She was director of the Moscow Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, has worked for EU delegations in Moscow and Kyiv, was head of the liaison office of GIZ to the German Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior and Justice and had a four-year stay in Tunisia as cluster coordinator in charge of governance programs.