office
Tine Laufer has been working at PowerShift since 2017, and since 2018 she has taken on the role of Managing Director. She has been on the Executive Board of PowerShift since 2023. She studied law, international relations and organizational sciences. Prior to her time at PowerShift, she led the DAAD office in Armenia, was 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 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., among others.
Franziska Neumann-Lehmann has been working for PowerShift since 2021 and has been an assistant to the management since 2024. She is responsible for operational processes, public relations and events. With a linguistic background, a regional focus on CIS countries and Central Asia as well as many years of experience in international cultural work, including for the Goethe-Institut and the DAAD, she brings expertise for just transformation processes, creative perspectives and community know-how.
Trade and investment policy
At PowerShift, Thomas Fritz is committed to the social and environmental sustainability of retail. He worked on the coherence of trade policy with standards and regulations on supply chains, human rights, environment and climate protection. Before joining PowerShift, he worked for the Research and Documentation Center Chile-Latin America (FDCL) as well as a specialist author and consultant.
Main areas of work: Team coordination, sustainability in trade agreements, impact monitoring.
I am active at PowerShift because this profession is also a vocation, namely to work for a just global economy that respects our planetary boundaries and protects human rights.
Alessa Hartmann has been working at PowerShift on trade and investment policy since 2014 and focuses on 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. Prior to joining PowerShift, she worked at the Environment and Development Forum and the Development Policy Association of German Non-Governmental Organisations (VENRO).
Bettina Müller studied politics and international relations. From 2014 to 2018, she lived and worked in Argentina – already on international trade policy. After a turbulent 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 is now engaged in European trade and investment policy. She is particularly interested in investor-state arbitration, an unjust, private legal system that urgently needs to be abolished.
Fabian Flues works at PowerShift as a trade and investment policy officer, focusing on the relationship between trade, raw material mining and processing, and environmental protection. Prior to joining PowerShift, he worked at Friends of the Earth in Brussels.
energy policy
Kiva Drexel has been working at PowerShift since April 2025 with a focus on resource conflicts and climate adaptation.
Neelke Wagner has been working at PowerShift as a climate and resource justice consultant since May 2023. Their 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 Group in the Bundestag and Klaus Ernst, MdB. As a journalist, she has also already devoted herself to the energy transition (e.g. 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.
raw materials policy
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 Rohstoff at PowerShift and is committed to making German raw materials policy more just and democratic globally. Otherwise, she likes to be on the move, on rails, wheels or in thoughts. Likes sound, voices and dance, and likes to be irritated.
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.
Vanessa Fischer joined PowerShift in 2021. She studied Global Studies, Social Sciences and Asian-African Studies in Berlin, Shanghai, Buenos Aires and New Delhi. Before joining PowerShift, she worked as an editor at nd and worked on Free Trade Agreements in India at Focus on the Global South.
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 Rohstoff 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 drive forward the urgently needed turnaround in raw materials. If he does not deal with metals and human rights, he runs after his daughter, is a columnist of the oldest music fanzine in the world and enjoys the lowlands of Berlin amateur football.
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.
