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Kristina Lunz is the co-founder and Germany co-director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, a research and advocacy organisation promoting a feminist approach to foreign and security policy. She is further an advisor to the Federal Foreign Office in Germany where she was asked to come on board to build the foreign minister’s network on women’s right between Latin America, the Caribbean and Germany, ‘Unidas’. Kristina is an Ashoka Fellow, BMW Responsible Leader, Atlantik Brücke Young Leader, and Forbes 30 under 30.

Kristina has been engaged in feminist activism for several years. In 2014 she initiated a campaign against sexism in Europe’s biggest newspaper; she was one of the 20 activists of the intersectional grassroots campaign “Against sexualized violence and racism. Anytime. Anywhere. #ausnahmslos” after sexualized attacks in Cologen New Year’s Eve 2015/16 for which she and her team were awarded the Clara-Zetkin Prize for Political Intervention; and she further advised UN Women National Committee Germany on the ‘No Means No’ Campaign in 2016 to change the German rape law. The law was changed the same year.

Coming from a working-class family from the country side, educational inequality is another topic Kristina is passionate about. Kristina regularly speaks publicly about foreign policy, feminism, activism, leadership, power, inequality and entrepreneurship.

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