Imke Steimann supports the Secretary General by managing his agenda, organising missions, conferences, and events, as well as conducting background research and preparing presentations. She is also responsible for selected projects.
Imke carryes out background research and produces documents, reports, presentations and briefing papers. She also maintains the liaison with relevant partner institutions and stakeholders. She further established and coordinates the Afghan Scholars and Students at Risk Programme in mid-2021 in response to the human rights crisis in Afghanistan, as well as designed and currently supports the implementation of the Exile Fellow project.
Prior to joining the Global Campus in 2020, Imke worked as Project Assistant at the Munich Security Conference.
Before, she interned at the German Mission to the United Nations in New York and the London-based NGO Child Soldiers International.
Imke graduated from a Human Rights Master’s Programme at the University of Vienna where she focused on children’s rights and armed conflict. She also holds a BA degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Governance from the University in Freiburg, and spent an exchange year in Canada.