Meet The Team

Sofia has been a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester since September 2022, after earning her PhD from Lancaster University in 2014. Her research centers on applied microeconomics and economic education, particularly regarding social and cultural impacts in the creative industries. She is also a member of The Women in Economics Initiative, dedicated to mentoring and supporting women in the field based on her own experiences.

Wiebke is an evaluator and researcher at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (Deval) in Bonn. She holds a BSc in Economics from Hannover and Bristol, an MSc in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Hannover. Her research focuses on economic development in Southeast Asia. Additionally, she consults for the World Bank on adaptive social protection in the Pacific. In her free time, Wiebke enjoys cooking and playing music.

Gill currently works as a competition economist. She studied (BSc) Economics & Econometrics at the University of Bristol and obtained a MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. Her main interests in Economics are applied microeconomics and econometrics. Her Master’s thesis focused on investigating households’ willingness-to-pay for goods and the variation by demographics. In her free time, Gill enjoys cooking and doing Pilates.

Jasmine is a Ph.D. candidate in Finance at Goethe University (GSEFM) and a Junior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. She received the SAFE Scholarship in 2022. Since 2021, she has been a designer and coordinator for the Women in Economics Mentoring Program, a Europe-based nonprofit. Additionally, she is a founding member and board member of Education Without Barriers, a global education nonprofit since 2016, and serves on the organizing committee for the Bonn-Frankfurt-Mannheim PhD Conference (2023-2024).

Cristina is the Coordinator for Corporate Collaborations and Data Science Education at the IFO Institute in Munich. She recently earned her PhD in Economics with a focus on firm innovation behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Passionate about mentoring and knowledge sharing, she has committed herself to these goals throughout her research career. Outside of work, Cristina enjoys coffee with friends, exploring new music, going to the cinema, and dancing.

Anina is one of the mentoring programme managers. She works as an empirical researcher at the Hertie School of Government in Berlin and focuses on sovereign debt and political economy topics. Anina holds a master’s degree from UCL and has lived in London, Montréal, and Heidelberg. In her free time, she loves to explore nature, cook, read, travel & discuss politics.