About Bettina Boekle
Bettina Boekle is the Portfolio Lead Innovation working in the Investing and Partnering with Youth for Peace project. She brings applied and academic experience from the political science and international relations fields in Ghana, Germany and Geneva. Boekle’s work to date has focused on income inequality, social cohesion, gender and female entrepreneurship as well as on education policy, politics and federalism in Brazil.
She completed her master’s and doctoral degrees in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin, Germany and has obtained a master’s degree in International Relations and International Economics from Johns-Hopkins University in the United States of America. Previous experience includes working at the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation at the headquarters and in Ghana), the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Group in Germany and Interpeace in Geneva.
