Dr. Kira Vinke is head of the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
She co-chairs the Advisory Board to the German Federal Government on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding and is affiliated as a guest scientist with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) where she worked before joining DGAP. Her interest in the Industrial Heartlands project are connected to the role of migration in shaping the sustainability transformation in the United States and Germany and the transatlantic perspective on the implementation challenges of green industrial policy.