Liane Schalatek is the Associate Director of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC. Liane has 10 years of experience in global governance, specifically international trade and finance, as well as the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment. A particular interest of her work has been awareness and capacity building work on the need to engender macroeconomic policy. Currently, her work focuses on international climate finance, with an emphasis on public climate finance flows and on equitable access to climate funding.  A special emphasis is on addressing the gender dimensions of climate change (adaptation and mitigation), including with respect to climate finance. Before joining HBS in 1999, Liane served as Program Officer for Transatlantic Economic Relations at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Washington. She worked as a newsroom reporter and a freelance journalist for several years. Liane holds a M.A. in Political Science and Political Economy from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and a M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, Washington D.C.