Tine Laufer has been with PowerShift since 2017 and has taken over the role of Managing Director since 2018. She has been a member of the PowerShift Board of Directors since 2023. She studied law, international relations and organizational sciences. Before joining PowerShift, she headed the DAAD office in Armenia, worked as a guest lecturer at the Siberian Federal University in Russia and at WEED in the PC Global project.

Adrian Bornmann has been working at PowerShift since 2023. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in Governance and Human Rights. He has gained experience in the field of communication and press relations at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights e.V. and the Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland e.V..

Fabian Flues works at PowerShift as a consultant for trade and investment policy, focusing on the relationship between trade, raw material extraction and processing and environmental protection. Prior to joining PowerShift, he worked at Friends of the Earth in Brussels, among others.

Bettina Müller studied politics and international relations. From 2014 to 2018, she lived and worked in Argentina - already on international trade policy. After an eventful period of action on the South American continent, she embarked on new adventures at the beginning of 2019 and into the arms of PowerShift, where she now deals with European trade and investment policy. She is particularly interested in investor-state arbitration, an unjust, private legal system that urgently needs to be abolished.

Alessa Hartmann has been working at PowerShift on trade and investment policy since 2014 and is primarily concerned with the influence of trade and investment protection regulations on environmental and development policy. She is also a member of the coordination group of the Just World Trade Network. Before joining PowerShift, she worked at the Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung and the Association for Development Policy of German Non-Governmental Organisations - VENRO.

At PowerShift, Thomas Fritz is committed to the social and environmental sustainability of retail. He works on the coherence of trade policy with norms and regulations on supply chains, human rights, environmental and climate protection. Prior to joining PowerShift, he worked for the Research and Documentation Center Chile-Latin America (FDCL) as well as as a specialist author and consultant.

Neelke Wagner has been working at PowerShift since May 2023 as a consultant for climate and resource justice. Her focus is on the energy sector. She has worked as a speaker for hydrogen, climate protection and heat transition at the Climate Alliance Germany and before that for energy and climate policy at the Left Party in the Bundestag and at Klaus Ernst, MdB. As a journalist, she has already devoted herself to the energy transition (for example, at the solar magazine Photon). Since she has also been responsible for the publications of Mehr Demokratie for several years, she is also at home in the field of (direct) democracy.

Michael Reckordt has been working at PowerShift since May 2013 and is a consultant for raw materials policy. The graduate geographer is former managing director of the Philippine office (2009 to 2013) and coordinator of the AK Rohstoffe network (2013 to 2020). His focus is on German raw material policy and the mining conditions of metallic raw materials worldwide. It is particularly important to him to push ahead with the urgently needed change in raw materials. When he is not concerned with metals and human rights, he runs after his daughter, is a columnist for the oldest music fanzine in the world and enjoys the lowlands of Berlin's amateur football.

Hannah Pilgrim has been supporting the work of the Raw Materials Policy Team for a few years; Since March 2020, she has been working as coordinator of the AK Rohstoffe at PowerShift and is committed to making Germany's raw materials policy more equitable and democratic globally. Otherwise, she likes to move, on rails, wheels or in thoughts. Likes sound, voices and dance, and likes to be irritated.

Hendrik Schnittker has been supporting PowerShift since 2021. Since mid-2022, he has been a speaker on the energy and raw materials transition. His focus is on the metal demand for renewable energy infrastructure and the question of how we can cover it in the long term and still take action against destructive mining.

Vanessa Fischer joined PowerShift in 2021. She has studied Global Studies, Social Sciences and Asian-African Studies in Berlin, Shanghai, Buenos Aires and New Delhi. Prior to joining PowerShift, she worked as an editor at nd and worked on free trade agreements in India at Focus on the Global South.

Since September 2023, Maja Wilke has been with PowerShift, since January 2024 as a consultant for raw materials policy. Before that, she studied International Relations, worked in the Green Office of her university and spent some time in Latin America.

I am involved in the advisory board of PowerShift, because for me PowerShift is one of the most important, critical voices in Germany, which is well-founded and from a global perspective for a socially and ecologically just treatment of the climate crisis and energy transition. I am happy to support that!

I'm on PowerShift's advisory board because the organisation works tirelessly against trade policy in the sole interest of corporations, even if the issue threatens to disappear from the public eye.

I am involved in the advisory board of PowerShift, because successful resistance against green extractivism and green colonialism can only succeed through solidary and competent lines of communication between metropolises and mines.

I am a member of the advisory board to reflect with PowerShift on my own role in a changing world.

I support PowerShift so that the rules of the world economy serve social and environmental goals rather than the profit interests of companies.

Tine Laufer has been with PowerShift since 2017 and has taken over the role of Managing Director since 2018. She has been a member of the PowerShift Board of Directors since 2023. She studied law, international relations and organizational sciences. Before joining PowerShift, she headed the DAAD office in Armenia, worked as a guest lecturer at the Siberian Federal University in Russia and at WEED in the PC Global project.

Peter Fuchs is a Dipl.-Economist/Dipl.-Socialist economist and has been active in environmental policy and internationalist work for many years. He is the "founding father" of PowerShift, Managing Director and until 2018 worked mainly on international trade and investment policy. In the meantime, he is building up our partner organization PowerShift Brandenburg e.V. on a voluntary basis and is working on the topics of energy transition, citizen energy and agri-PV.
In addition to work, he tries to get his little daughter to play football and bike - later on: Bacon board games - to motivate.

Merle Groneweg is on the board of PowerShift. The focus of her work is on the raw material consumption of cars as well as the interlinking of raw material and trade policy. She is also interested in EU-China economic relations. Merle Groneweg studied regional studies in Berlin, Beijing and Paris (B.A.) and global political economy in Kassel (M.A.). She has a great passion for green tea, bicycles and cinema.

Antonia Vangelista supports PowerShift as a freelancer, especially on the podcast Kompass Weltwirtschaft. In her studies, she has dealt with international relations and political economy. She also works as a freelance journalist.

Elena Gnant is a freelancer at PowerShift. It supports PowerShift in the area of raw materials policy and organizes, among other things, the crash course on raw materials policy.

After completing her bachelor's degree at Bard College Berlin, where she studied mainly political science and economics, Emma Jacoby started a voluntary ecological year at the Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin. She has been working for PowerShift as part of her FÖJ since October.

Leonel Müller completed an internship in the raw materials office after completing his bachelor's degree in political science. Since then, he has been supporting PowerShift as a freelancer in various resource policy and organizational activities. At the same time, he is studying economics. He is particularly interested in Latin America.