Sophie previously worked with the United Nations (ECLAC) and the German Federal Development Agency (GIZ) on social and economic development and regional integration, and gathered campaign experience while working with Amnesty International. She has been working with Democracy International since 2013. Sophie fluently speaks English, German, French and Spanish.

Responsibilities:

- Conceptualising projects on participatory and direct democracy in the EU

- Managing campaigns and projects

- Liaising with actors from politics, civil society and academia, building strategic partnerships

- Monitoring and reporting on European democracy issues

Contact:

+49 15773303241
vonhatzfeldt[at]democracy-international.org

Sophie on Democracy:

“In the longer term, we can imagine that people would use their knowledge about the determinants of well-being to pressure governments to enact policies that maximise their own well-being. This might have another happiness benefit: countries with institutions that facilitate more individual involvement in politics tend to have happier citizens.”  

(Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-being, 2002.)