Michaela Spaeth

Michaela Spaeth is Director for Energy and Climate Policy, Economic Affairs and Human Rights,
International Labour Rights and Issues at the German Federal Foreign Office. Michaela is a career
diplomat. Her professional path has focused on economic and global issues and climate policy. She
has worked at German missions in Dhaka, London, Beijing, Warsaw and Vienna, the office of Tom
Koenigs, Member of the German Bundestag and Deputy Special Representative for Civil
Administration of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo and at the Foreign &
Commonwealth Office in London. Michaela holds Masters’s degree in Public Administration from the
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge. Degree in Economic and Social History, Political Science and
Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Freiburg and the Institut d’études politiques in
Paris.