Alexandra Wandel

Management Board

Alexandra Wandel was appointed Development Director in 2006 to prepare the founding congress of the World Future Council and is executive member of the Management Board since 2007. The board is responsible for foundation management, representation, council liaison and resource mobilisation. Since 2010, she has developed partnerships with twelve UN agencies for the World Future Policy Award on topics such as biodiversity, forests, oceans and coasts, desertification, agroecology and children’s and youth rights.

Since 2014, she has been a member of the International Commission of the ‘Voices of Future Generations’ children’s book series. Her current honorary positions include associate member of the Club of Rome, Germany, and board member of Lichtpunkt, Trauma Therapy and Psychosocial Centre for Refugees in Hamburg. Previously she was coordinator of the European trade and sustainability programme of Friends of the Earth International in Brussels. Between 1999 and 2006, she coordinated the activities of European NGOs, including the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conferences in Seattle, Doha, Cancun and Hong Kong and the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

She was an advisor to the European Commission delegation to the Johannesburg Summit and to EU Commissioner Lamy for Globalisation, Trade and Environment on behalf of the main European environmental NGOs: Friends of the Earth Europe, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Greenpeace and Birdlife.

She has been quoted in the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, Deutsche Welle TV, Libération and Radio Mundo Real. She previously worked for EcoPeace Middle East in East Jerusalem, the Egyptian Youth for Development and Environment in Cairo and was personal assistant to Eva Quistorp, MEP, Brussels, and Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP, Potsdam. Alexandra holds an MA in International Relations with honours from the University of Amsterdam and studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.