Anna-Katharina Hornidge is director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. In her research, she works on knowledges and innovation development as well as questions of natural resources governance in agriculture and fisheries in Asia and Africa. Anna Hornidge serves as expert advisor at national, EU and UN level: as member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change of the German Government (WBGU), co-chair (with Gesine Schwan) of SDSN Germany, and as part of the executive council of the German UNESCO Commission.