Kristina Lunz is an award-winning entrepreneur, award-winning activist and bestselling author. She is CEO of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), which she co-founded in 2018. In February 2019, she was named among the "30 under 30" by Forbes (Europe and DACH). She is a Young Leader of Atlantik-Brücke, Ashoka Fellow, BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, Handelsblatt/BCG "Vordenker*innen 2020" and was one of Focus magazine's "100 Women of the Year 2020". She was also a member of the Advisory Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers Initiative on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals from 2022 to 2024. In May 2024, she received the German Start-Up Award as "Impact Entrepreneur 2024".

In 2019/20, Kristina Lunz was an external advisor at the Federal Foreign Office, where she set up the feminist network Unidas for the then German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. She also worked on gender, peace and extremism for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Yangon, Myanmar, and in New York City and worked for the local NGO Sisma Mujer in Bogotá, Colombia, on the topic of "Women, Peace and Security" (WPS).

Kristina holds two Master's degrees, both from University College London (MSc Global Governance and Ethics) and 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 close to her heart and she speaks publicly about her journey from a working class family in a village to academic success at Oxford.

In February 2022, her bestseller "The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist" was published (in German; publisher: Ullstein/Econ Verlag), which was published a year later as an expanded paperback edition with updates and new chapters on Iran and Russia. The English and updated version of her book was published in September 2023. Her new book "Empathy and Resistance" will be published in October 2024, also by Ullstein.

Kristina Lunz's influence extends beyond her professional achievements. She was the German face of Giorgio Armani's female empowerment campaign "Crossroads" in 2022, which showcased the career paths of 12 remarkable women worldwide. She also contributed the chapter "Unlearn Politics" to the bestseller "Unlearn Patriarchy" in fall 2022.

Her campaign successes include a national campaign in 2014 against the sexist portrayal of women in the BILD newspaper, which contributed to the removal of the "BILD girl". Her campaign "Against sexualized violence and racism. Always. Everywhere. #ausnahmslos" (2015/16) received a lot of attention and her team and she won the "Clara Zetkin Prize for Political Intervention". In 2016, she initiated the "No means No" campaign with UN Women Germany, which helped to successfully change the rape law in Germany. In 2023, the German Foreign Minister recognized her and the CFFP for their pioneering role in the implementation of Germany's feminist foreign policy. In 2024, she led a campaign with over 150 prominent women against the German Justice Minister's blocking of the EU Protection Against Violence Directive and led efforts to decriminalize abortion law in Germany, with a major press conference planned for October 2024.

Kristina Lunz is convinced that peace, human rights and justice should be considered together with foreign policy in order to introduce a paradigm shift: She contrasts power games and military muscle-flexing with mediation in peace negotiations, feminist power analyses and climate justice. Realpolitik is being replaced by utopias, and there are just as many female ambassadors as male ones. Lunz's core message is therefore: no peace without feminism.

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

She has been awarded the following prizes, among others (selection):

• Start-Up Award in the category "Impact Entrepreneur of the Year 2024" (German Start-Up Association)
• Women for Change 2024 (Change Now)
• Women of the Year 2024 (Beyond Gender Agenda)
• Powershifter Award 2023 (Creative Bureaucracy Festival)
• Top 40 under 40 2023 and 2022 (Capital Magazine)
• Rolemodel Community Award 2022 (Strive Magazine)
• 25 Women Award for more courage in the category Politics 2022 (Edition F)
• Thought leader 2020 (Handelsblatt and Boston Consulting Group)
• 100 women of the year 2020 (Focus Magazine)
• 30 under 30 2019 (Forbes DACH and Forbes Europe)