Vanessa Fischer is a consultant for raw materials policy at PowerShift e.V. and works on issues of global raw materials justice as well as for a social-ecological transformation of the economy.

Her work focuses in particular on the raw materials transition, the raw materials trade and its financing as well as on questions of resource equity. It analyses global supply and trade structures and draws attention to the social, ecological and human rights consequences of raw material extraction.

In her work, she combines political analysis with application-related research and contributes to classifying central relationships in the raw materials sector and to pointing out objectively sound perspectives for its further development.