Dr. Christiane Averbeck is executive director of Transfer-21, a Germany-wide program on education for sustainable development. She has worked as a consultant for the German Council for Sustainable Development, conducted a research project on sustainable resource use in Uganda, worked as a senior advisor for a German NGO in Uganda, and as senior researcher in a project funded by the Federal Environmental Agency on marine pollution. She holds a Master’s degree in biology and a . in natural science. .