Anja König is a policy advisor and business economist. She worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Germany and in Kenya as a policy advisor to the Kenyan Government appointed by GTZ/GIZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) and with S&W Consultants, an economic consultancy in London.

Her special research interest lies in entrepreneurial solutions to social and environmental challenges. As a Mercator-IPC Fellow, her research project titled “Social entrepreneurship and the role of the government: best practice and policy options in the climate change sector” is strongly related to the thematic area of Climate Change. She analyzed social entrepreneurship in Turkey related to climate change. A number of social entrepreneurs have emerged in recent years who address some of these challenges in innovative and entrepreneurial ways. The research focused on what role the Turkish government could play to shape the emerging social entrepreneurship ecosystem, support the creation of public goods by social entrepreneurs more effectively and on a larger scale, and attract (private, public, hybrid) investment capital for social and environmental impact.

Anja König holds an MBA from University of Mannheim (Germany), a Diploma in Political Science and Economics from Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris (France), and a Post Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the German Development Institute in Berlin.

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