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Dr. Stefanie Rothenberger
Director Rule of Law Programme Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Stefanie Rothenberger has been a foreign associate for the Rule of Law Programme Sub-Saharan Africa States based in Nairobi since the beginning of September 2020.
Previously, she worked in the Protocol Department of the German Bundestag, where she was responsible for the international relations of the President and Vice-Presidents of the German Bundestag, including with regard to the Arab world and Africa. During her time there, she spent two extended Arabic language training programmes in Oman. She began her professional career at the Federal Council, for which she was seconded to Brussels for one and a half years, and at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.
She studied law in Munich, Lausanne and Heidelberg and subsequently completed her doctorate on a topic of international environmental law at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She completed her legal clerkship in Hamburg, Vienna and Brussels.
She speaks English, French, Italian and Arabic.