Kristina Lunz is an award-winning entrepreneur, an award-winning human rights defender, and a bestselling author. She is the CEO of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), which she co-founded in 2018.

In February 2019, Kristina Lunz was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in both Europe and the DACH region. She is a member of the Club of Rome, a Young Leader of the Atlantik-Brücke, an Ashoka Fellow, a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, part of the Handelsblatt/BCG “Thought Leaders 2020,” and was recognized as one of Focus magazine’s “100 Women of the Year 2020.” From 2022 to 2024, she also served on the Advisory Group for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers Initiative, focusing on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In May 2024, she was awarded the German Start-Up Award as “Impact Entrepreneur 2024.”

In 2019/20, Kristina Lunz worked as an external advisor to the German Federal Foreign Office, where she helped establish the feminist network Unidas for then Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. She also worked on gender, peace, and extremism for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Yangon, Myanmar, and New York City, and for the local NGO Sisma Mujer in Bogotá, Colombia, focusing on “Women, Peace, and Security” (WPS).

Kristina holds two Master’s degrees: one from University College London (MSc Global Governance and Ethics) and one from the University of Oxford (MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy). In 2022, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Oxford, as a Research Fellow in Cybersecurity. Educational equity is a cause close to her heart, and she often speaks publicly about her journey from growing up in a working-class family in a small village to academic success at Oxford.

In February 2022, her bestselling book The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist (published in German by Ullstein/Econ Verlag) was released, followed a year later by an expanded paperback edition featuring new chapters on Iran and Russia. Her second book, Empathy and Resistance, was published in October 2024, also by Ullstein. Both books have been translated into English and are available through Polity Books. She also contributed chapters to the bestselling books Unlearn Patriarchy (2022) and Unlearn CO2 (2024), both published by Ullstein.

Kristina Lunz’s influence extends far beyond her professional achievements. In 2022, she was the German face of Giorgio Armani’s “Crossroads” campaign for female empowerment, which featured the career paths of 12 remarkable women worldwide.

Her campaign successes include leading a national campaign in 2014 against the sexist portrayal of women in Germany’s BILD newspaper, contributing to the removal of the “BILD Girl.” Her campaign Against Sexualized Violence and Racism. Always. Everywhere. #ausnahmslos (2015/16) gained widespread attention, earning her team the “Clara Zetkin Prize for Political Intervention.” In 2016, she initiated the “No Means No” campaign with UN Women Germany, which helped lead to the successful amendment of Germany’s rape laws that same year. In 2023, the German Foreign Minister honored her and the CFFP for their pioneering role in implementing Germany’s feminist foreign policy.

In 2024, she led a campaign with over 150 prominent women opposing the German Minister of Justice’s blockade of the EU directive on gender-based violence protection and spearheaded efforts to decriminalize abortion laws in Germany, culminating in a major press conference in October 2024.

Kristina Lunz believes that peace, human rights, and justice must be considered alongside foreign policy to introduce a true paradigm shift: She challenges power plays and military posturing with mediation in peace negotiations, feminist power analyses, and climate justice. Realpolitik is replaced with utopias, and there are just as many female ambassadors as male ones. Her core message: No peace without feminism.

Kristina Lunz gives talks and keynotes on topics such as empathy and resistance, justice, foreign policy, leadership, feminist foreign policy, feminism, social change, activism, courage, entrepreneurship, educational equity, and her personal story “from a working-class child in a village to Oxford.” Kristina and her work have been featured in various international media outlets, including Vogue, Spiegel, ZDF, and The Guardian.