We run the Dekeyser & Friends Foundation.

Florian Hoffmann

CEO

Florian stems from a German artist family and grew up in Germany and Spain. He studied International Politics, Political Philosophy and Arts in Berlin, at Duke University in North Carolina and in Great Britain. Florian was a junior member and DAAD stipendiary at St Antony’s College In Oxford, where he completed his MPhil on the EU‘s foreign policy with distinction and as best of his class.

Florian worked as a freelance journalist in the areas of cultural broadcasting, radio and print. He taught international politics courses as a teaching assistant, gave talks as well as organized conferences on the EU’s foreign policy in Germany, the US, UK and Rumania. Florian also worked as project manager in Asia, played theater in Germany and worked for public television. In 2009, Florian became one of the co-founders of the Actopia.eu think tank. Until last year, Florian played handball in the first British national league. He lives in Geneva with his girlfriend Katherin.

Fiamma Rupp-Gembs

Program Manager 

Fiamma is half Italian, half German and grew up in Germany.  She studied Philosophy, Literature and European Studies in Berlin, London and Barcelona. Fiamma did her Master’s degree in Education Policy and Management at Harvard. In 2004 Fiamma founded the non-profit „Sichere Perspektiven – Secure Perspectives e.V.“, which, over the last 5 years, has successfully worked in the Western Highlands of Guatemala in rural, indigenous Maya communities and their self-managed primary schools in the realm of education, health and infrastructure.

She gave lectures and seminars on development aid in Guatemala and project management in Germany, Guatemala and the US. Moreover, Fiamma organized conferences in the realm of international education and development at Harvard University. In 2007, Fiamma received the Mondialogo Engineering Award from Daimler and UNESCO in India. Fiamma lives in Geneva.

Rouven Ramon Steinfeld

Content and Communication Manager 

Rouven grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. He studied Liberal Arts in Berlin and Government , Diplomacy & Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, which he completed with distinction. Rouven studied for his Masters at the London School of Economics and Political Science researching the impact of US policy on UN peacekeeping under Presidents Bush senior and Clinton. He has also been active in competitive debate, and was a finalist and champion in Israeli national debate tournaments.

Rouven has worked in database development for the dsArt art gallery in Frankfurt and as a teaching assistant in a London school. He has been involved with a variety of voluntary projects, including organising an aid program for Sudanese refugees in Israel. In his spare time, Rouven is a keen actor and has both produced and acted in productions in Berlin and London. He also enjoys cooking, music, and getting to know his new hometown of Geneva.

Katherin Kirschenmann

Strategy and Development Manager

Katherin has lived, studied and worked in Germany, Scotland and Latin America. She did a Bachelor in Philosophy and Economics on a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft and later graduated with a Masters degree in International Strategy and Economics from the University of St. Andrews. During her studies she focused on topics in the area of Development Economics and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Before joining the Dekeyser & Friends team she worked as a consultant for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where she advised clients in the public as well as the business sector.

Katherin loves traveling and spent several months in Asia as well as Latin America where she worked in a volunteer project with kids in rural Nicaragua. She organized several conferences and events and gave lectures on development issues. Since she enjoys talking a lot she was founder and president of her University`s debating society. Being a keen skier, Katherin is very happy to now live so close to the Alps.

Nathalie Hummer

Freelance Senior Art Director 

Nathalie is half Austrian and half Belgian. After finishing her tourism studies in Salzburg, Austria and working for a year at EuroDisney in Paris, she studied Graphic Design in Brisbane, Australia and Munich. After finishing her studies, she worked for six years with the editorial design legend Horst Moser in Munich. Amongst others, she received the Merit Award of the Society of Publication Designers, NY for her work during that time.

In 2003, Nathalie opened her own graphic studio but soon took on the development and management of the DEDON graphic-design department at the company’s headquarters in Lüneburg.
Since 2008, Nathalie is once again working as a freelance designer and took on the development of the visual identity of D&F. She lives in Hamburg, Germany with her boyfriend Olaf.

Robert Suppé

Freelance Communication Designer 

Robert grew up in Southern Gemany. He studied graphic design and then moved to Frankfurt where he set up the graphic design divison for a new TV channel. In 1999, he founded his own studio in Munich and was soon working for many companies and magazines. From 2007-2009, Robert worked at DEDON, in the end running the graphic design department. He is now working again as a freelancer in Hamburg and, together with Nathalie, develops the CI and multimedia elements for Dekeyser & Friends. Robert travels back and forth between Hamburg and Munich, the hometown of his son Paul.

Anne-Charlotte Dannacker

Team Assistant

Lotte grew up in a small village close to Lüneburg, Germany. She studied Business Administration at the European Business Academy in Madrid and at the University of Mannheim. During her studies she worked for Continental, S.A. and Siemens, S.A. in Barcelona in the areas of Human Resources and Quality.

Lotte enjoys riding horses, running and dancing, as well as getting to know different countrys and cultures. She loves spending time with her family and taking rides in the nature accompanied by the two family dogs.

János Winkler

Pro Bono Medical Advisor

János grew up in Berlin and discovered his passion for the miracle of the human body after his grandmother gave him three books on anatomy when he was 14. He went on to study Western and Chinese Medicine and has since returned to China many times to continue his studies of Oriental medicine. At the age of 32 he became chief physician at the TCM and Pain Clinic in Lüneburg. Since 1995 János publishes and lectures on issues such as Acupuncture and Pain Therapy. He teaches at the Institute for Music Therapy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and was appointed professor there in 2006.

János advises the foundation on medical issues, especially regarding their health and safety in the projects worldwide. He now runs a private practice together with his wife, specializing in TCM, Pain Therapy and Regulative Medicine in Lüneburg where they live.

Norbert Lösing

Pro Bono Legal Advisor

Norbert was born in 1964 and spent much of his childhood in Madrid. He went on to study law in Bayreuth and went for his postgraduate judicial service traineeship to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He subsequently worked as legal advisor and project manager for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Venezuela and Argentine. He then taught at Heidelberg University and received a PhD from Bonn University. Since 2001 Norbert is Partner in the firm Sieper&Lösing.

For the foundation Norbert provides legal advice on a variety of issues. He lives with his wife Susanne and his three children in Lüneburg.