Given her international private and professional background, Angela has developed strong client relationships, notably with globally - active corporates, PE/VC and financial institutions. Digitalisation and new technologies, over the years, have become additional areas of her expertise. Previously, Angela held several positions in investment banking at leading financial institutions (including Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers) before founding her own executive search company in 2000, later joining EMA Partners Germany. Angela holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Göttingen. In addition to her alma mater, she studied economics at the Institute of Economics at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA) and the UFRGS in Porto Alegre (Brazil). She is fluent in Italian (her native language), English, German and Portuguese, and also a celebrated author to feature regularly in the German press. Additionally, Angela is also a frequent participant in high-level panel discussions and an active participant in Germany’s diversity debates.