Meet The Team

Chair of the Board

Jelena Todorović-Bojović

Jelena is a PhD student at LMU specializing in public economics, corporate taxation, and family economics. She serves on the board of WiE, focusing on the events team, and hosts the WiE Podcast. In her free time, she loves traveling, volunteering, reading, learning languages, baking, and practicing pilates.

Vice Chair of the Board

Sandra Kretschmer

Sandra, WiE’s Board Member for Outreach, joined in early 2020 after serving as event coordinator and Head of Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, focusing on decentralization incentives for energy transition. Currently, she works as an Energy Market Analyst at Siemens Energy.

Head of Finance

Maria Hofbauer Pèrez

Maria is a PhD candidate in economics at LMU Munich, focusing on empirical research in inequality and health. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, yoga, and attending concerts and theatre events.

Board Member

Clara Schäper

Clara is a Doctoral Researcher in the Gender Economics Research Group at DIW Berlin and a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics. She lectures at the University of Potsdam and is a guest researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research. Her research focuses on labor economics, gender, and family economics, while she enjoys live music and global cuisine in her free time.

Board Member

Virginia Sondergeld

Virginia leads WiE’s strategic development and monitors its impact. As a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin since 2019, she researches labor and gender economics. In her free time, she enjoys electronic music, playing piano, judo, and running.