Silvia Brugger was Director of the Climate and Sustainable Development Programme at the Brussels-based European Union office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung until April 2016. Prior to that, she worked within the EU office’s Global Dialogue Programme and at the Centre for Applied Policy Research in Munich. She spent a year at the University of Chile in Santiago and holds a Masters in Political Science, International Law and Intercultural Communication from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.