About us
Digital Development Debates is published by the Development Policy Forum of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Each issue focuses on a prevailing topic from the development policy sector. Our authors – all experts from their respective fields – explore different facets of this central topic in their contributions. Digital Development Debates takes a two-tiered approach: We offer short journalistic articles aimed at interested laypeople, and more in-depth technical articles that provide well-founded and detailed information.
Digital Development Debates is an interdisciplinary format that takes advantage of every interactive opportunity: we want to encourage conversation between readers and authors. Our goal is to create a lively platform where experts, journalists, students, business people and other interested parties can continue to expand the existing pool of information and with room for debate – as the name Digital Development Debates promises.
Team
Sarah Klein
Sarah Klein, Chief Editor of Digital Development Debates, has worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH since 2009. Sarah holds a Master's degree in political science.
Sarah.Klein@digital-development-debates.org
Eva-Maria Verfürth
Eva-Maria Verfürth is an editor at Digital Development Debates. She is a freelance journalist and PR-consultant who specialises in development cooperation.
Previously, Eva-Maria worked in the Communications Department at InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany, and was editor in chief of matices, a German magazine on Latin America.
Eva-Maria holds a masters degree in Latin American Studies from University of Köln.
Maren Zeidler
Maren Zeidler is an editor at Digital Development Debates web magazine, and lived in Turkey for eleven years.
She studied political science, history and cultural anthropology at Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany and development studies at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton, Great Britain.
Maren has worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH since 2010.