Philippa Sigl-Glöckner leads Dezernat Zukunft, a Berlin-based think tank rethinking monetary, financial, fiscal, and economic policy. She oversees work on fiscal policy, particularly Germany’s debt brake reform.

She began her career in management consulting in London and Cambodia before joining the World Bank’s President’s Delivery Unit (2013–2018), where she worked on performance metrics and crisis finance during the Ebola response. She then advised Liberia’s Ministry of Finance, and between 2018 and 2020 served at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance, initially as a macroeconomic advisor and later as private secretary to the State Secretary. Since co-founding Dezernat Zukunft in 2020, she has served as its Managing Director.

At Dezernat Zukunft, she has authored influential proposals to overhaul Germany’s debt brake, co-authored the thought-leading publication Eine neue deutsche Finanzpolitik, and shaped the think tank’s research agenda on green investment capacity.

She earned a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Computing from Imperial College London. She was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance (2019), recognised as a Handelsblatt “Vordenkerin” (2020), part of Capital 40 Under 40, and serves on SPD’s Economic Policy Advisory Council.