Kristen Huttner (29) from Heidelberg studied Law in Freiburg im Breichsgau and completed her Master of Laws at the McGill University in Montréal. After her legal internship (among others at the European Commission in Brussels) she started working at an international energy company and completed an extra-occupational dissertation in the field of corporate governance. During her Mercator Fellowship, she focused on the legal frameworks of producing drinking water through desalination using renewable energies in developing countries. Kirsten Huttner now works at 50Hertz in Berlin.