Yvonne Mitschka studied business administration at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the University of Auckland. Recently, she obtained a masters degree in economics as well as the CEMS Master’s in international management from the University of Cologne and the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). She gained professional experience at KPMG in Munich and Santiago, as well as at zeb (a management consultancy) in Münster, the Embassy of Germany in Poland and the Climate Finance Integrity Programme of Transparency International in Berlin. As a Mercator Fellow, she will deal with strategies for energy-efficient cities in transition countries.