Sabina Wölkner

Sabina Wölkner has been Director of the Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, based in Canberra, since August 2025. Prior to this, she headed the 2030 Agenda Department in Berlin, focusing on climate and energy policy, sustainability, global health, and development policy. Her international experience also includes leading the Multinational Development Dialogue in Brussels (2014–2019), where she worked at the intersection of development policy, democracy, security, and climate policy. During this time, she represented the Foundation in the European Network of Political Foundations (ENoP) and co-coordinated the EU-funded project “Get involved: Women Empowerment in Morocco and Benin.” From 2009 to 2014, Sabina Wölkner headed the KAS country office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where her work focused on democratization, EU integration, and reconciliation.

She began her work with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in 2006. Before that, she was a Resident Fellow in the Central Europe Programme of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin.

Sabina Wölkner (M.A.) studied Political Science and East Slavic Studies at the Universities of Mannheim and Warsaw.