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Anja Berretta
Head of the Regional Programme Economy Africa
Since January 2025, Anja Berretta has been heading the Regional Programme on Economy in Africa, based in Nairobi. From 2019 to 2024, she led the Regional Programme on Energy Security and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. She began her work with KAS in 2008 as a trainee in the Regional Programme for Political Dialogue in West Africa and subsequently worked in the Evaluation Unit of the Department of European and International Cooperation, where she was responsible for evaluations and programme management. From 2017 to 2018, she served as Learning and Evaluation Manager at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy in London. She studied Cultural and Social Sciences at the Universities of Frankfurt (Oder) and Marne-la-Vallée, France, as well as International Relations and European Studies at the Universities of La Sapienza, Italy, and Osnabrück. In addition, she completed a postgraduate certificate course in Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation at ETH Zurich.