Before Anna Sophie Herken became a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, she was Business Division Head at Allianz Asset Management GmbH and a member of the supervisory board at Allianz Life in the USA and CPIC Fund Management Ltd in China. Anna Sophie Herken has – rather untypically for the classic German career path – gained experience in various sectors and many different countries: Among other things, she was CFO at HPC Capital, Managing Director of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, at the EBRD in London, worked for the World Bank in Washington DC on large projects in India, Africa and Eastern Europe and worked for the German Federal Ministry of Economics. Anna studied law in Germany, France and the USA and later completed an MBA at Cambridge University. Anna was also a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the AllBright Foundation, which campaigns for more women and diversity in leadership positions in business, and of the Supervisory Board of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Germany. She is also a member of the General Assembly of Save the Children Germany. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Business Ethics Network. Anna is German-Swedish, has 2 children and lives in Berlin and Munich.