Katharina Osthoff
Senior Specialist
Katharina is EU Foreign Policy Specialist and Lead in E3G’s Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics team.
Her work focuses on the role of EU foreign policy and external action in advancing global climate diplomacy and the clean economy transition. She works at the intersection of EU foreign policy, geopolitics, and climate diplomacy, engaging with EU institutions, member states, and international partners to strengthen the EU’s international climate leadership.
Prior to joining E3G, Katharina worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Brussels, where she oversaw the foundation’s work on international and institutional affairs as well as human rights. Before that, she served as a Policy Advisor on foreign affairs in both the European Parliament and the German Bundestag, with a particular focus on Asia and China. Her work has covered European and German foreign and security policy, global human rights and relations with the Indo-Pacific. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Research Associate at the German Atlantic Association in Berlin.
She holds an MA in International Relations (Security Studies) from Leiden University and a dual BA in Political Science and Sociology from the Universities of Münster, Ghent, and Heidelberg. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and baking, photography and playing badminton.
Her work focuses on the role of EU foreign policy and external action in advancing global climate diplomacy and the clean economy transition. She works at the intersection of EU foreign policy, geopolitics, and climate diplomacy, engaging with EU institutions, member states, and international partners to strengthen the EU’s international climate leadership.
Prior to joining E3G, Katharina worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Brussels, where she oversaw the foundation’s work on international and institutional affairs as well as human rights. Before that, she served as a Policy Advisor on foreign affairs in both the European Parliament and the German Bundestag, with a particular focus on Asia and China. Her work has covered European and German foreign and security policy, global human rights and relations with the Indo-Pacific. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Research Associate at the German Atlantic Association in Berlin.
She holds an MA in International Relations (Security Studies) from Leiden University and a dual BA in Political Science and Sociology from the Universities of Münster, Ghent, and Heidelberg. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and baking, photography and playing badminton.