Katrin Altmeyer was Head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in China until 2012. Previously, she spent more than four years in Beijing, most recently as Head of Marketing and Communications at WWF China. Katrin Altmeyer came to Beijing in early 2002 as part of GTZ / CIM's expert program to support local environmental organizations. After studying communications science and anthropology in Munich and Berlin, Ms. Altmeyer worked for ten years as a television journalist for the international program of Deutsche Welle, after which she worked for several years as a media specialist for the environmental organization WWF in Germany.