Vera is advising the German government on social-ecological innovation and social aspects of climate change. Besides, am the co-founder of the social enterprise “mimycri”. They are repurposing existing material into high quality designs together with refugees in Berlin and Athens. Before that, she was negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals on behalf of the German Federal government and worked on their implementation and science-policy communication at the UN Environment International Resource Panel in Paris. She is trained as an environmental economist and have been working on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Circular Economy.