Andrea Kambergs

Andrea works at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as Science Manager for the project GeoClimRisk - The Geopolitics of Climate Risks. Prior to that, she worked for three years as Project Coordinator and Knowledge Broker of the B-EPICC project (Brazil East Africa Peru India Climate Capacities).

Before joining PIK, Andrea worked in the field of international cooperation for about twenty years. She headed an agency for intercultural project and event management and organized and coordinated projects, conferences and workshops worldwide. She has worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bread for the World, Interlink Academy and Airbus BizLab, among others. Her work has taken her to various regions of the world, including Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Peru, Brazil, India, Ukraine and Georgia. Personally, she has a strong connection to Latin America and especially Colombia, where she lived for some time.

Andrea holds a Master's degree in Geography and Cultural Communication from Humboldt University in Berlin and is a certified project manager. She wrote her thesis on “Indigenous communities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, between traditional land use and modern conservation”.