Annabell Kreuzer is an economist with a passion for bringing together development cooperation and private sector. After researching about motives for companies to join development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa at the German Development Institute (DIE), she joined GIZ in 2016. Her first GIZ stations led her to Algeria and Bonn before working in Tanzania and the rest of East Africa with the goal to connect East African and German companies in a project jointly implemented with the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Since summer 2020 she works for the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation as a seconded advisor at the Digital Skills Accelerator Africa (DSAA) and enables digital companies to invest and create jobs in Africa.