Sonja Schenkel, PhD

MAIN CURATOR / DIRECTOR PAITITI LAB

Worked as a researcher and knowledge manager on poverty reduction and private sector initiatives in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Pakistan. She later deepened this experience through her PhD in sustainable development on gender and innovation in conflict, and by partaking in a sustainable consumption initiative launched by the German Ministry of Education. Sonja Schenkel has ample hands-on experience in international contexts covering cross-cutting issues in sustainable development as a film producer and participatory design specialist. She concluded her PhD at IHEID, Geneva and a Master in Social Anthropology at UNAM, Mexico, and University of Zurich.