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Sarah Theresa Fischer's Bio

BIOGRAPHY

Sarah Theresa Fischer
Head of GovStack Flagship
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Sarah Fischer is the Head of the GovStack Flagship project at Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Prior to leading the GovStack Flagship she worked as a policy advisor for the Sector Programme Digital Development, advising on and implementing the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation’s (BMZ) digital strategy, focusing specifically on cyber security, gig-economy and e-government.

Sarah has 7 years of work experience at the intersection of politics and digitization. Prior to GIZ, she spent several years as a public sector consultant, advising the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs as well as the German Federal Ministry of Environmental Affairs on Indutsrie 4.0, digital government and digital civic engagement. Additionally, Sarah contributed to developing digital strategies for several federal states in Germany. Sarah holds a M.Sc. in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and a B.A. in Liberal Sciences from the University of Maastricht.